… in this case, muted fall colours that matched my mood until I spent a couple of hours wandering in the forest with a friend. Time spent outdoors and concentrating on the natural world improved my outlook no end. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” –…
Tag: autumn
It’s that time of year again, when leaves blow onto wet pavements or roads, and form accidental compositions for people to walk past unseeing, except for us dedicated band of sidewalk spotters (we are all over the place, hidden in plain sight!). If you see someone aiming their…
Several wild windy days have started shaking apples from our two trees, which is good news for wasps, ants and small rodents, but less so for us. I’ve just started picking now – the Egremont Russets are starting to come away from the twigs fairly easily. This means…
I’m always surprised at how suddenly Autumn (Fall) arrives. This early morning, there was an indefinable coolness in the air – I don’t think the temperature was any lower but the quality of the warmth was different. The lawn and weeds were bedecked with guttation dew, and when…
Warm sunny autumn days are too precious to waste, so when I looked out the bedroom window and saw mist lying in the valley, I quickly got dressed and went out for a short walk with the camera. I’m so glad I did – it was one of…
It’s been a perfect autumn afternoon – warm sun on my back, cirrus in a blue sky, a cool breeze soughing in the hedge. I walked along on the sunny lee side, where I could hardly hear the ever-present hum of traffic on the coast road, but was…
We’ve been lucky enough to have a long dry and warm spell this autumn, so it was hard to resist the call of the local forest today. Charmouth Forest on the borders of East Devon and West Dorset is a mix of broadleaf woodland and coniferous forestry, and…
I’ve lost count of the many times I wished I had a camera with me – as the owner of an elderly text/call-only mobile phone (how quaint!), I don’t have the luxury of constant readiness for an opportunity. In fact, I even dream of wonderful scenes that I fail…
Furzehill Plantation is a small commercial plantation of spruce just down the road from my house. Not very prepossessing to look at normally, sometimes the light catches the trunks just right and I can find an image I like. This was taken in autumn when the sun was…