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  • Autumn leaves starting to fall

    Autumn leaves starting to fall

    The dark green evergreen trees in the background, either side of the tree with the pale copper leaves, give a nice vibrant green to a landscape that is in transition between the crisp colours of summers’ end to the more subdued hues of leaves all starting to fade before dropping to the floor to fertilise the next generation. The crisp air and sharper blue up there lets you know the winter days are coming. The light, as always in this season, starts to have a clarity about it that sharpens everything up, even as the air demands heavier and warmer clothes.

  • Autumn leaves

    Autumn leaves

    These lovely old trees stand just by an old stone bridge on one side of the river here and as autumn starts to change most of the leaves on most of the trees, these various soft pale copper hues all bring smiles to hearts passing by. Why wouldn’t they ! The softness of the late afternoon light give subtle washes of light and shade to different parts of this landscape and is a lovely thing to see.

  • Skeleton tree lit up  by late afternoon autumn sunshine

    Skeleton tree lit up by late afternoon autumn sunshine

    Many of the trees along this small river have now dropped all their leaves and stand ungarlanded in the early winter sunshine till the spring comes round again. Their superstructure is truly a thing of beauty and it is wonderful that in each season we get a different set of beautifulnesses, from all these different and blessed parts of our Natural World. There is never an unused moment in Nature and we who get to witness it all are constantly blessed by yet more abundant provision, whether in terms of visual, smell, sound, feel, or the nourishment that comes from being able to eat whatever the vast provision of Nature so freely offers. Why wouldn’t we be grateful beyond belief and so so careful to look after it all, and paying conscious attention to all of that ‘work-at-our-hands-to-do, process.

  • One lone yellow leaved tree

    One lone yellow leaved tree

    As winter approaches, this single yellow leaved tree holds out for yet more great sunlight to keep growing and using its’ leaves to breathe in and out for itself, passing on nutrients to the tree and oxygen to the Humans. Winter landscapes can be thought of as not very interesting but if you spend a bit of time just quietly looking, there is much to admire and be blessed by. The subtle contrasts in all sort of different hues in this shot is one such interesting gift of the generally more dulled down colours as summer becomes a more and more distant memory.

  • A quiet grassy knoll to sit under a tree on

    A quiet grassy knoll to sit under a tree on

    When this vast open parkland belonged to just one family who had had it all gifted to them because one or more of their number had gone fighting with/for a King or a Queen, someone designed this beautiful grassy knoll to sit atop a circular bit of water surrounding it that got diverted from the river just the other side of it, and folk could sit up here, under this specially planted big tree (smaller back then) and gaze lovingly out at what was the vast castle (which would have been to the left of the shot.) Since then, the watercourse has more or less dried up, and the little walkway bridge to get you from here to there has given up and we have to scramble down and up old steps but, once you get there, there is a nice new metal seat on which folk can still sit and, now, enjoy unbroken parkland and open sunshine, when its’ here. Wonderful

  • Getting deeper into the forest

    Getting deeper into the forest

    When the canopy above is not too dense nor to high, the light levels on the forest floor reveal all sorts of differing colours, hues, shapes and contrasts. Here, the skeleton trees in the left and right foreground mirror the bigger silhouetted more mature tree trunks behind them, with the myriad golden, ochre colours and hues of leaves behind all of that. It really is a wonderful richness of differences and you get versions of this all over the place in nature, you just have to go out there and start walking ! (take a camera !)

  • The very last of a bright winters day sunlight

    The very last of a bright winters day sunlight

    As the sun just starts setting here, it razors itself across this vast long wall of russet leaves and just look at the result ! What a show ! The mass of trees in the wood not far behind us here, start casting their shadow as the suns dips lower and you get this marvellous contrast of that dark umbra against the still vibrant greens of the grasses. Grass (of this kind) is the most undervalued and extensive resource across much of our Equally Shared Planet. ( No, I know, we don’t all agree to live alongside each other as if we do, actually, share this small beautiful Planet Equally, for real, but, and, the reality is, each one of us is given an Equal Chance to do the best we can to help Our Self, our Family, our Friends, our Neighbours, our Communities, in equally potential-riddled moments. If we choose to not take up that chance fully, it does not mean that that reality is not there, it just means we are - for whatever so-called “reasons” not ‘willing’ to ‘become part-of, and assume, by our behavioural choices & mostly without thinking, that we somehow have some sort of A-Priori “right” to live at the expense of others around us - no one does have that right. Read what The God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob has to say to Each One of Us about that behaviour in Jeremmiah 31 & Isaiah 58 in the Old Testament Jewish Holy Books and The Christian Bible - why dontcha !) Could the rich sun on the leaves on these beautifully lit shrubs be your own 'Burning Bush' Moment - maybe ! (Exodus 3/1-6)

  • Tree tangles in woodland in winter

    Tree tangles in woodland in winter

    Natures’ version of ‘PickUp Sticks’ ! These lovely tree trunks, all dying now, have clearly tried to co-exist together and get as much of the available light as they each could but they have not succeeded, and all of them are now paying the price for overgrowing and a for a lack of proper land management by the humans who could have thinned these out early on and culled what was getting in the way to allow at least a few of these great trees to thrive. Nature, though, has a way of coming back so we’ll see what a few years will bring.

  • Stunning Autumn Colours 1

    Stunning Autumn Colours 1

    In the very late afternoon, on a cloudy but brightish day, the last light washes these wonderful colours with a soft intermittent light and gives us this beautifulness to go home with - does it get much better than that ! Autumn leaves on the floor a-plenty now and the colder air starting to become an ever-present daily thing, we will see the massive shift in the landscape that we hope can be delayed just a bit, so we can keep admiring all these great colours. The vibrant greens of those plants sill thriving, show off the deep reds and ochres beautifully

  • Stunning Autumn Colours 2

    Stunning Autumn Colours 2

    In the very late afternoon, on a cloudy but brightish day, the last light washes these wonderful colours with a soft intermittent light and gives us this beautifulness to go home with - does it get much better than that ! Autumn leaves on the floor a-plenty now and the colder air starting to become an ever-present daily thing, we will see the massive shift in the landscape that we hope can be delayed just a bit, so we can keep admiring all these great colours. The vibrant greens of those plants sill thriving, show off the deep reds and ochres beautifully

  • Red Autumn Leaves on the Forest Floor 1

    Red Autumn Leaves on the Forest Floor 1

    Great swathes of the forest floor are covered with massed leaves like this as Autumn starts taking over. Some of them much more on the brown and yellow side but in many cases, you get concentrations of these wonderful red and ochre hues and when they’re all in a mass, they make a beautiful tableau. If you made this a desktop pic you’d have to have white writing on it and a small border all round to keep and show the icons where they wouldn’t get lost but what a small price to pay for having something this vibrant to welcome you every time you switched on your device !

  • Red Autumn Leaves on the Forest Floor 2

    Red Autumn Leaves on the Forest Floor 2

    Great swathes of the forest floor are covered with massed leaves like this as Autumn starts taking over. Some of them much more on the brown and yellow side but in many cases, you get concentrations of these wonderful red and ochre hues and when they’re all in a mass, they make a beautiful tableau. If you made this a desktop pic you’d have to have white writing on it and a small border all round to keep and show the icons where they wouldn’t get lost but what a small price to pay for having something this vibrant to welcome you every time you switched on your device !

  • Red Autumn Leaves on the Forest Floor 3

    Red Autumn Leaves on the Forest Floor 3

    Great swathes of the forest floor are covered with massed leaves like this as Autumn starts taking over. Some of them much more on the brown and yellow side but in many cases, you get concentrations of these wonderful red and ochre hues and when they’re all in a mass, they make a beautiful tableau. If you made this a desktop pic you’d have to have white writing on it and a small border all round to keep and show the icons where they wouldn’t get lost but what a small price to pay for having something this vibrant to welcome you every time you switched on your device !

  • Brown & Yellow Autumn Leaves on Forest Floor

    Brown & Yellow Autumn Leaves on Forest Floor

    Here’s the yellow and brown version of the previous three red ochre leaves shots. These browns are far more common than the red ochres and do have a beauty of their own but the stunning and in-yer-faceness of the red ochre leaves is still my favourite. This is a typical scene from a day in late autumn in the north of the UK - the light levels are not high on this day and the colours can be seen as being a bit muted but hey - that’s what’s there, a lot of the time.

  • Established trees and Rhododendron bushes

    Established trees and Rhododendron bushes

    This little enclave, just twenty feet or so from the river over on the right, is part of the old established part of this open parkland and these mature and successful trees and bushes show it. The land is well fertilised, year on year, by the massed leaves falling each autumn, and long planted snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils and other flowering plants have a firm hold within this large earthy area under a thin canopy of tree leaves higher up. Squirrels like to forage around the base of those bushes and birdsong is everywhere here as this busy place gets on with its’ year by year survival and growth. A really blessed place to be.

  • Stunning copper leaved Tree

    Stunning copper leaved Tree

    This beautiful little tree just stands out from everything else around it in the late afternoon light, and grabs your attention, wherever you are in sight of it. The contrasts with the vibrant greens and other hues nearby gives it a holistic completeness and many happy smiles in happy hearts are brought into being as folk see this little tree just standing here.

  • Woodland scene as Autumn approaches

    Woodland scene as Autumn approaches

    Leaves changing colours. Trees beginning to show bare bones. The woodland floor building up masses of dead leaves for fertiliser for the next generations of all of their parent plants. The sky a clearer crisper blue, in parts, the daylight hours lessening, the air getting colder suddenly, that winter sparseness starting to be here. Season changing, before our very eyes. The land getting ready to rest a bit till the next spring starts it all off again. Wonderful to be able to witness it and to know that we have, by The Grace of El-Shaddai, at least a bunch or two more of such full seasons left in us. (for His Living Word sustains everything, including Each One of Us)

  • A bit deeper in to the forested area here

    A bit deeper in to the forested area here

    This beautiful pathway through these well spaced trees, across this autumn-studded landscape, as winter starts approaching, is a truly blessed place to walk and just to sit and be. Snowdrops, Crocuses, Daffodils and many other flowering plants have become endemic to this whole large tract of wooded land here and delight and awe folk as January moves into February and the middle of March, up here in the northern parts of the UK. Leaves changing colours. Trees beginning to show bare bones. The woodland floor building up masses of dead leaves for fertiliser for the next generations of all of their parent plants. The sky a clearer crisper blue, in parts, the daylight hours lessening, the air getting colder suddenly, that winter sparseness starting to be here. Season changing, before our very eyes. The land getting ready to rest a bit till the next spring starts it all off again. Wonderful to be able to witness it and to know that we have, by The Grace of El-Shaddai, at least a bunch or two more of such full seasons left in us. (for His Living Word sustains everything, including Each One of Us)

  • Autumn Beauty 1

    Autumn Beauty 1

    This wonderful old tree just leans out its’ magically coloured branches for us to be awed by, as autumn starts biting up in the northern parts of the UK. Such truly stunning beauty of colours, along with that so graceful opening down towards the earth, of these two peaceful branches, is a truly blessed thing to witness and to pass on. Be Mightily Blessed as you use and/or pass n this image.

  • Autumn Beauty 2

    Autumn Beauty 2

    A closer look at the previous shot, from a different perspective. A real visual feast of the subtle changing leaves, in all of their various changes and permutations, as they all start their yearly travel to the forest floor below, to fertilise the good earth, giving their next generations the best start they can. You could spend an age just trying to paint thee colours – bring them into being. Such ! A Blessing to be able to see them! Really.

  • Autumn landscape as winter comes closer

    Autumn landscape as winter comes closer

    These lovely of-white grasses in the foreground, and then the skeleton trees just behind them, backed up by the massed beauty of all those fallen and falling leaves, all along that beautiful long avenue, with the Horse Chestnuts along most of it, bring joy to he heart and a lovely look at our changing landscape as one more summer starts ending and one more winter starts getting real about being here. Such a lot of beauty, in all of the yearly changes. It never gets old, It really doesn’t. Such a privilege to be able to witness to it all.

  • A rainy windy day out on the land 1

    A rainy windy day out on the land 1

    End of the available light really. Darkening and spotting with rain. Breezy in gusts. Not the easy way to shoot. This is what Nature looks like often and we never see it as worthy of recording well, here it is. Beautiful colours here and a brooding sense of some of the awesome power of the World we all equally share.

  • A rainy windy day out on the land 2

    A rainy windy day out on the land 2

    End of the available light really. Darkening and spotting with rain. Breezy in gusts. Not the easy way to shoot. This is what Nature looks like often and we never see it as worthy of recording well, here it is. Beautiful colours here and a brooding sense of some of the awesome power of the World we all equally share.

  • A rainy windy day out on the land 3

    A rainy windy day out on the land 3

    End of the available light really. Darkening and spotting with rain. Breezy in gusts. Not the easy way to shoot. This is what Nature looks like often and we never see it as worthy of recording well, here it is. Beautiful colours here and a brooding sense of some of the awesome power of the World we all equally share.

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