Autumn leaves...

14 October 2010

I love the colours of yellow ochre and olive green in this image of the grass dying back...

The verge looked wonderful with the grass covered in early morning dew...

I always find that when the morning is misty, I become far more aware of the beauty of individual grass stems, dead plants, leafless trees...

beautiful little toadstools growing through the moss on a tree stump...

different type of tiny toadstool growing on a piece of hawthorne...

Mist shrouded beech trees in the hedgerow...

I clambered over a full culvert... and climbed a muddy bank... and leaned over a barbed wire fence to get the photograph I wanted of this leafless hawthorne tree...  Shane stood quietly on the lane... watching me... he obviously thought I was losing my mind... or he wondered how he was going to get home to his breakfast if I fell and injured myself...

I love the layers that the mist creates in the landscape.

A truly beautiful hawthorne stump from an old hedge...