Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.

Released on the first of the month, each episode follows the changing landscape of the seasons,

from the moon and the stars to the tides and the trees.

I'm Leah Lane Dirt's author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this podcast is a collaboration

between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic perfume, who blend, barrel age and

bottle, four fragrances a year, released at the equinoxes and solstices. I love wearing fern.

In my quest to live in tune with the seasons,

applying the season's perfume

is a lovely little ritual

that reminds me to use all my senses.

We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead

will awaken you to the rhythms of the year

and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.

The sunrise. On November the 1st, sunrise is at 7.28 a.m. in Inververness and 7.10 a.m. in Padstow.

It is no longer unusual to be awake or even out and about before dawn.

We normally think of star watching as an activity for the evening hours,

but this November's dark mornings coincide with some astronomical events that are

best viewed before dawn, if you can get yourself out there into the cold, dark morning.

There are two meteor showers to look out for this month, the Torids overnight on the 4th to the 5th,

and the Leonids on the 17th to the 18th. Both are

fairly minor, but meteor showers are almost all best viewed in the hour or so just before dawn.

The shooting stars are created when the earth moves through the dust trails left behind by

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