‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.’
~ L.M. Montgomery
Autumn: red
10 Sunday Oct 2021
Tag Archives: autumn leaves
Autumn: yellow
03 Sunday Oct 2021
‘How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.’ ~ John Burroughs
335/366 In praise of Beech
30 Monday Nov 2020
In his ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, Keats wrote of a ‘light-winged Dryad of the trees’ singing of summer in ‘some melodious plot of beechen green’. The beechen green has now become beechen gold and brown, but I can still imagine Dryads singing of the beauty of mighty Beech trees, in all their autumnal finery, and even performing paeans in praise of their statuesque forms once those golden leaves have fallen.
310/366 Geography in a leaf
05 Thursday Nov 2020
This Oak leaf looks to me like a lesson in geography, maybe a topographical map or perhaps a close view of the earth from a satellite, where the veins are rivers, the green the agricultural fields nurtured by their water, the brown the dry uplands.
313/365 Colours of Autumn
09 Saturday Nov 2019
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autumn, autumn at Forest Farm, autumn colour, autumn leaves, autumn trees, Forest Farm Nature Reserve
Here are some of the colours of autumn from my walk around Forest Farm Nature Reserve yesterday. It was magical!
302/365 Hunger
29 Tuesday Oct 2019
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I’m not sure what creature had eaten all the holes in this leaf as I couldn’t find the culprit but it certainly must’ve been hungry. I rather like the pretty little artwork it had created.
293/365 Leaf skeleton, I
20 Sunday Oct 2019
One of the ghosts of the many beautiful fallen leaves …
288/365 Autumn treasure
15 Tuesday Oct 2019
‘The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.’ ~ Charlotte Fiske Bates, ‘Woodbines in October’, from Risk, and other poems, 1879
284/365 Brown veins in the rain
11 Friday Oct 2019
It’s been a week of almost constant rain and, despite my rain wear, I’ve had several drenchings. Fortunately, one of my cameras is waterproof so I can still take photos in the wet. Today it was the leaves that caught my eye and the incredible spectrum of browns.
Late autumn at Forest Farm
18 Sunday Nov 2018
When anyone asks me what my favourite season is I can never decide because they each have their good points but, this year, our late-arriving autumn has certainly been magnificent. On Wednesday I caught the train to Radyr for a meander around Forest Farm Nature Reserve and it was sublime. From bright golden yellows to rustling red-browns, with some leaves still decorating spreading branches above my head and others carpeting the woodland floor beneath my feet, I spent a marvellous day, my eyes admiring, my feet kicking, my neck craning and all my senses spilling over. Ah, autumn!
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