Landscape 4

Winter Woodland twigs, branches and grasses.
This big old clump of trees sit at the edge of the start of a long tree-lined driveway into this vast parkland proper and has developed this wonderful architecture which is only seeable when it’s leaves are all shed for the winter. The nice serried lean of the younger line of trees to the right of the shot give a sense of the good husbandry of this vast open parkland and the many blessings every part of it offers to all who are privileged to be here. It gets long late afternoon light and the rich hues of copper and browns get delineated beautifully in this pale warm soft late afternoon light. The grasses here add the kind of colour contrasts that seem to make the shot - for me anyway.
More of Natures’ Architecture
These winter small trees and large shrubs give us all their wonderful architecture during the winter months and small old fallen brown curled leaves hang, caught, in their myriad interlacings - a small reminder of what autumn looked like. You get to see the birds flitting and squirrels running, much more often in these conditions, with all the leaves gone, than in the warmer seasons. They don’t seem to mind though. They’re quicker than us and always curious about what we’re doing here !
A Typical Woodland edge.
This optimistic bit of timber has long lost its’ fence mesh either side of it and now stands as a lone symbol of mans’ involvement with this bit of the edge of the forest, whilst the forest gets on and does what it constantly does, man notwithstanding Wonderful what Mankind, at our best, has been able to make of and with the provision of our Natural World. The nice juxtaposition of what Nature makes and what Man makes of it, caught my attention here, and I wanted to remember that difference.
Winter Woodland Trees
These wonderful Winter trees look as if at least four of them are auditioning for The Burning Bush’ sequence in a Biblical Film somewhere ! Wonderful what the late afternoon sunlight can do across hues and shapes sometimes. It just catches the ochre hues of these trees and enhances the, to the point where, with one eye closed, they could well be another burning bush or three. And what would our response be if we found that to be so ! The same as Moses’ ? (Exodus 3/1-4)