Glorious Autumn

Today has been absolutely glorious....clean blue skies one minute then a dark cloud sending the autumn colours into intensity...........

..the leaves of the silver birch are hanging on by a gossamer thread......

...the sunlight reflects off of the spindly tree trunks....as the forest floor turns to amber..

...after a brief shower the sky is alive with the rainbow colours........

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....i whispered a wish.......

..where did you spring from??

...... i pride myself on my observational powers..i notice things....moths and bugs.....twigs and shoots...the shape of the clouds....the slightest changes in the seasons.....
but i never noticed this before and i have walked this path often!!!




..a huge redwood tree.

...its bark deeply grooved.....flaking and lichen covered.....a beautiful shade of verdigris....

......its upper most branches way above me....... standing straight and solid against the cold blue sky.........

...i once lived in a house flanked by two of these magnificent trees......they must have been so old..and i always wondered if the trees or the house came first....

..how do you tell how old a redwood is???..or do they just appear overnight like mushrooms?

First frost

The shock of the first frost this morning.....

scraping ice from the car windscreen....

the crunch of walking on the frozen ground....

the sun slowly rises through the cloud...

highlighting the vapor trails flying east...
.....cold hands...warm heart......xx

thinking of spring...

...i am already thinking of bulbs.....seeds and plantings for next year in the garden......the seasons change and we move with them..............

this morning was so dark and although i relish those dark winter days when you are cozy inside....part of me is already longing for spring....xx

not fair...

..every morning i have a date.......in France with Angus and Wilf.....they brighten my day with their tales of their life...the font, madame bay, the beer and absinthe crowd, the old dog Jerome and hilarious goings on in their village....as Angus says 'you couldn't make it up'....

..a while back Wilf lost his brother to a tick born disease but has 'soldiered on' giving me and a whole lot more people all around the world a happy warm glow each day.....

it seems wholly unfair that now Wilf has been taken ill and has only a few days to live.....it was such a shock to read this...somehow Angus has managed to keep us all informed about the wonderful Wilfs progress and you can just feel the love that surrounds him in peoples comments on their blog.......

it never ceases to amaze me of the kindness of strangers on the Internet...it makes communities of friends who may never meet but are somehow connected....by an interest...or a passion....or a polish lowland sheepdog called Wilf....

Merry-go-round..

......sometimes my life is like a merry-go-round....
I twirl......
and dip.....
go fast.....
go slow....
....sometimes I feel nauseous.....
...sometimes elated....
maybe a bit scared....
but surely life is never boring at my fairground.......

....a beautiful bunch of autumn coloured roses for your weekend my friends.....

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mists & Rainbows

autumn has truly arrived .....

.....today I passed a sign saying 1st October come to the Christmas fair today!!!......Tescos has its aisles laden with Halloween goodies and there are Christmas cakes on the shelves..........

..I find....

.....I am becoming an old 'humbug' person.....is it really necessary to sell Christmas cake on October 1st????.....OK if you are going to make one and douse it with brandy every week until Dec.25th...thats fine...but.....the cynic in me thinks that the supermarkets expect you to buy it and having no self control you will then eat it before 25/12 and therefore have to buy another.......move over Ebenezer!!!............

...there skies have been weird lately......foggy mornings.....rainy days........then evening rainbows.......

...wishing you all a lovely weekend....xx