Field Maple #trees

 

 

Trees, Field Maple, October 2015

 

Acer campestre. (more…)

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Silver Birch #trees

 

 

Trees, Silver Birch, October 2015

 

Fallen Betula pendula. (more…)

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A promise of life renewed #trees

 

 

Trees, Ash, October 2015

 

Ash, Fraxinus excelsior, plays host to an unidentified pupa in the rain. (more…)

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‘ … these dark days of autumn rain #trees

 

 

Trees, Spruce, October 2015

 

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

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

 

 

Trees, Oak, October 2015

 

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

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A wet day in the wood #trees

 

 

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

 

 

Trees, Oak, September 2015

 

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

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

 

 

General, East Ride, September 2015

 

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

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The tree of fire #plants

 

 

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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Yggdrasil and blue #plants

  Trees, Ash, September 2015

 

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

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Autumn foreshadowed #plants

 

 

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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Fruit of the Spindle tree #plants

 

 

Trees, Spindle, September 2015

 

Euonymus europaea. (more…)

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