‘ … these dark days of autumn rain #trees

Posted by on Oct 14, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, October, Spruce, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Spruce, October 2015

 

‘Are beautiful as days can be …’ – lines by Robert Frost. (more…)

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Splash of colour #plants

Posted by on Oct 13, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Black Bryony, October | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, Black Bryony, October 2015

 

Black Bryony, Tamus communis, on Hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna. (more…)

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‘We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!’ #plants

Posted by on Oct 12, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, October, Thistle | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, Thistle, October 2015

 

A mass of dead thistles and a line attributed to the poet Humbert Wolfe. (more…)

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‘I saw the brown leaves dropping from their tree’ #trees

Posted by on Oct 10, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Oak, October, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Oak, October 2015

 

From The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate Cole (more…)

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A wet day in the wood #trees

Posted by on Oct 8, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Hawthorn, October, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Hawthorn, October 2015

 

A first October visit and, although it poured down, the Hawthorn haws glowed. (more…)

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‘Acorns were good until bread was found’ #plants

Posted by on Oct 3, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Oak, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Oak, September 2015

 

Quercus robur and a quote attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. (more…)

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Colours of a woodland floor #plants #fungi

Posted by on Oct 2, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Fungi, Moss, September, Turkeytail, Unidentified | 0 comments

 

 

Fungi, Turkeytail, Moss, unidentified, September 2015

 

Turkeytail, Trametes versicolor, and possibly the moss Mnium hornum. (more…)

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‘It is old, but the trees are young …’ #plants

Posted by on Oct 1, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, General, Rides, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

General, East Ride, September 2015

 

From ‘The Green Roads’ by Edward Thomas. (more…)

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The tree of fire #plants

Posted by on Sep 30, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Elder, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Elder, September 2015

 

The name ‘Elder’ may come from the Anglo-Saxon ‘aeld’, meaning fire, because the hollow stems were used as bellows to blow air into the centre of a fire, says the Woodland Trust. (more…)

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Pendulous Sedge #plants

Posted by on Sep 29, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Pendulous Sedge, Sedge, September | 0 comments

 

 

Sedge, Pendulous, September 2015

 

Carex pendula on the wet east ride. (more…)

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Yggdrasil and blue #plants

Posted by on Sep 28, 2015 in 2015, Ash, Autumn, September, Trees | 0 comments

  Trees, Ash, September 2015

 

Ash, Fraxinus excelsior, the tree of life in Norse mytholody. (more…)

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Autumn foreshadowed #plants

Posted by on Sep 27, 2015 in 2015, Autumn, Birch, Oak, September, Trees | 0 comments

 

 

Trees, Oak, Birch, September 2015

 

The leaves of an Oak, Quercus robur, lay on logs of Silver Birch, Betula pendula. (more…)

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