Showing posts with label spindle berries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spindle berries. Show all posts

4.11.05

Winter wanderings

Mindful of the warning of the weather forecasters (..."it's going to RAIN HEAVILY this weekend...") I played hooky today and went for a long walk. It has been a mild, damp October, but now Winter is tapping his finger on Autumn's shoulder and saying 'excuse me...MY turn, I think'. The recent winds have layered the ground in a thick blanket and there is a hushed atmosphere as the woodland prepares for the big sleep...


The fungi are almost over...there are a few stragglers, and like latecomers at a party, they are a bit odd and often slimey...
















Such dramatic
lighting - we are situated many feet above sea level and the landscape spreads out beneath a bowl of sky. You can see the weather changing in the next county and watch as the winds kick the rainclouds into Oxfordshire.

The bareness of the hedgerows has revealed bright jewels...


















...but evening draws in quickly now, and the path leads homewards...to hot chocolate and home made apple pie. Some compensation for the dark and the cold.