Autumn

Just a quick thought - one week to go and it will be November and yet the roses in the garden are still blooming - we live in crazy mixed up times.

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Autumn Colour - Gallery on line.

I have just posted the new gallery - Autumn Colour

Autumn - a short project

I have been fascinated by the changing autumn colours locally.  As I mentioned previously on Saturday I took a walk through what remains of the countryside near to where I live.   I was looking for autumn colour.   I soon found it.  However, the biggest surprise I got was that most of it is provided by the highways agency.   It would seem that much of the brazen colours I came across were from trees planted either to hide the M1 or other main arterial routes.   This raises an interesting question about the environment of man's impact upon it.   If there was no motorway then we would not have such a vibrant autumn and yet the motorway represents huge environmental impacts.  Does one merit the other?   Of course motorways are not built for their aesthetic beauty but rather their blunt functionality.  None the less some small part of their impact on the environment has been for the benefit of humans.    This doesn't even address the issue of nature preservation i.e. motorways are some of the largest nature reserves in the country.  

Anyway, enough of this prattle I must go and start putting the autumn gallery together and publish it on my website .

Autumn

DMU Path

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.  What a wonderful day it has been.   The sky is full of character and mischief.   One moment it is dull; the next there are beautiful shafts of the cleanest light streaming across the countryside.    This might sound like I have overdone the grape juice but I just love autumn.   This also makes it sound that I live in the middle of the country but I'm afraid that is not the case.   Whilst I did take a walk in the countryside this morning I was never more than 400 metres from a motorway.   Still I was able to commune with nature - well have a chat with some non-plus cattle - probably the reason that they were non-plus was because a number of the compatriots were being shipped off to market and well our dining table.   Still, it didn't stop me spending a few minutes with a small herd whilst I ate a rather juicy apple.   This was not such a good idea in retrospect - as soon as I started walking again my aging joints started to complain.  Oh the joys of getting old!   Still this wouldn't stop my good spirits - especially after the mood I have been in over the past two weeks.   It really was a joy to be out.

The DMU path image was a follow on to another one I made last week.   I just love the combination of leaf, colour and the line.   My colleagues on the course wondered what I was doing but I just had to capture the image.   I am not sure what that says about me.