Autumn -Thematic Photography

Carmi sets us an autumn theme each year and I can never attempt to match the colour of the trees in a North American fall.

The next day the leaves have gone but elsewhere there is fun a guy can have.

Fungi - not ice cream

A day later,  colours are obscured and sheep appear like ghosts out of the fog.

Although this is a post to link to Thematic-photographic-386-autumn later this week it will also link to Good-fences-136.

Autumn - Thematic Photography

When Carmi sets us 'autumn' as a theme, the trees here in the North of England haven't all changed colour. My tree shot is from 2012.

Avenue of trees - Judges, Kirklevington

In October our annual reminder of autumn is provided by scenes like these.

Sign on a wagon carrying a Crooked Cottage for Yarm Fair.

The annual fair is being held this week in the High Street.

Autumn is a time for berries, so here's a recognition test - especially for my daughter. Feel free to tell me/her what they are.

Red berries (to the right of our apple tree)

Orange berries on the hedge (on the left of our drive)

At this time of year, now that the harvest has been gathered in, the farmers are particularly busy.

Autumn ploughing

They provide some interesting views.

Autumn colours

My previous post 'October Garden' ( http://bit.ly/1NBDY1n ) might also be said to be an autumn post. You will find others by following the links at Carmi's Thematic-Photographic-352.

Summer (and signs of Autumn)

There have been hordes of butterflies in our garden this year with Peacocks, Red Admirals and Tortoiseshells in abundance. However a smaller species has been around a lot as well.

Speckled Wood butterfly on a Euonymus
(Emerald 'N Gold) leaf

Those black 'eyes' on its wings seem to be watching you.

I walk by things every day without using my eyes. A garden by the roadside always has a magnificent show of dahlias which I have neglected to photograph until today when some are past their best.

Roadside Dahlias

That photo does not do justice to the beauty of individual blooms ( I do not know the names of each variety.)

I have watched corn grow throughout the year but never managed to see it being harvested.

Just stubble and a single pile of straw bales

The farmers certainly get on quickly as most of this field has been ploughed and rolled. Today sowing for next year's crop was in progress.

Seed drill at work

The tractor behind the bush was pulling a roller to break down another ploughed section of the same field.

If farmers are starting on autumn tasks others have a move to warmer climes in mind.

Preparing to fly south

Here's something we tend to take for granted.

Fuchsia bush at the top of our drive

We really should look closer as we walk past.

Fuchsia flowers

Obviously summer isn't quite over yet.

Autumn (Fall) Colours - Thematic Photography

I used all my colourful photos last year and as yet the trees near us in the North East of England are only just starting to turn. Carmi's theme of fall colours looked like being difficult for me until I received this shot from my daughter in Michigan taken in her grounds at the weekend..

Michigan colours in the fall

This afternoon touring our village I found one tree that had decided autumn had come - shame about the pole.

Kirklevington tree

Shame also that I don't know what sort of tree it is. Perhaps someone can tell me from this close-up.

A little further down the lane to the left of the tree a shrub had also decided it was autumn too.

However the view that caught my attention early this morning, while the frost was still on the ground and before the sun was up, was not the colours of the trees but this up in the sky.

Vapour trails 

 

We are on the flight path for planes to and from Amsterdam and these are the vapour trails as they break down after the plane(s) have gone.

To other autumn colours you need to fly off to Thematic-photographic-216-fall-colors

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Carmi's theme this week is Keat's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.'
But I think I have to agree with Joyce Kilmer:

 'I think I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree'

Beech in autumn

'But ah! the leaves of summer that lie on the ground' (Robert Bridges)

Autumn beech wood

Beech leaves

Oak apples

Meanwhile, 'At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows.' (John Drinkwater - Moonlight Apples)

Apples (in my office)

'O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained, ' (William Blake) what is there better to mix with apples in a pie than:

Blackberries in October

But, 'Now is the time for burning of the leaves.' (Laurence Binyon) so to see other hues please visit

Welcome Autumn