Autumn in … my head. And everywhere else, too.

For the first time in years, I’ve actually been able to notice autumn around me. Being a student again, I have time to roam around during the day and see it. All these colours I’ve been missing out on, spending my last three autumns in the office: when I’d leave the house in the morning, it was still dark. And when I’d leave the office to go home in the evening, it was already dark. And maybe I was just too tired to notice it, too.

In the past, London was always just grey, grey, grey to me.

I’m lucky to live next to a park, so when I take a little afternoon break from coursework, I’d have to be blind not to notice autumn. It’s everywhere, and it’s beautiful. I feel so fortunate now to be able to actually enjoy this colourful side of London.

On Monday, when my brain got tired of the library, I ventured off campus towards Hyde Park … nothing like a bit of sunshine and fresh air to help me get my head around concurrent execution of transactions in distributed databases, ha! I sat on a bench and had the song “Autumn in New York” in my head; it just seemed to be the perfect soundtrack … shame there isn’t one called Autumn in London. The photos below were taken with my phone, so the quality is not the best.