Frost Pocket
Early frost on a sunny October morning, Newnham, Kent, in the last week of British Summer Time.
Orchards in the valleys have long-since been grubbed up in favour of human settlements, pheasants and trees for wood & fences (and roads). The apple and cherry orchards, first planted on an edict from King Henry VIII, are on the higher slopes, though they are no longer full of big tall old trees lightly hung with fruit. Now they are yield-rich, young, densely-planted in close straight lines with fruit within reach. And they have mostly been picked already, their fruit in cold-store, before the first frosts creep up the sides of the chalky downland valley. So far, though, frosts have not climbed far above the valley bottoms and are soon gone in the morning sunlight.
Frost Pocket
Early frost on a sunny October morning, Newnham, Kent, in the last week of British Summer Time.
Orchards in the valleys have long-since been grubbed up in favour of human settlements, pheasants and trees for wood & fences (and roads). The apple and cherry orchards, first planted on an edict from King Henry VIII, are on the higher slopes, though they are no longer full of big tall old trees lightly hung with fruit. Now they are yield-rich, young, densely-planted in close straight lines with fruit within reach. And they have mostly been picked already, their fruit in cold-store, before the first frosts creep up the sides of the chalky downland valley. So far, though, frosts have not climbed far above the valley bottoms and are soon gone in the morning sunlight.