Almost November

Back to mild and wet weather again, for as long as it lasts.
The birds who haven’t already left to go south were singing today, almost as if greeting spring. I wish!

High water level in the river.

Lake View

The snow is gone and it’s raining, so I’m going back into my archives… Don’t think I’ve shared this photo, it’s another one from two weeks ago. See that silhouette of a chair, in the middle of the picture? If you go back to my post from 11 October there’s a picture of it in the collage.

I really should come up with some kind of system what pictures I have already shared. After 1½ years of photo frenzy and blogging and my memory is beginning to fail me ;) …

Frosty Morning 3

   

Frosty Morning 2

  

 

   

Frosty Morning

Frosty mornings two days in a row now.
Pictures taken around 8.50 in the morning (we’re still on summer daylight saving time).

Golden Light

Even on a gray day, the autumn leaves sometimes seem to be self-luminous.

Have A Seat, Admire The View

 

 

A walk up the rather steep hill to the Museum Park, Saturday.

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Museum Church

The old church in the Museum Park, in all the glory of the surrounding autumn colours.
(Link goes to a previous post about it.)

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
Isaiah 55:12

Red House

For a while, during the early September rains, I was worried that perhaps the autumn colours were going to pass us by this year, just fading from wet to brown. But they did not. Nature is offering an awesome display of colour just now.

Decorations

At the entrance of a home decor shop.

The Maple Tree

This big maple is the dominant tree in the park that in the summer I call the “butterfly park”.
It is also the park with the croquet lawn which I’ve only rarely seen anyone use.
(The “butterfly flowerbeds” are at the other end of the park.)

Mosaic Monday: Mallards

Mallard or Wild duck - Anas platyrhynchos

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Waterfall

      

    

From the same cemetery/park as in yesterday’s post.
These five photos are all straight-from-the-camera shots with my little Nikon Coolpix.

(With a nod to Adrian of Adrian’s Images… )

Autumn Light

These two pictures were taken in late afternoon light within one minute of each other, in more or less the same spot. I can’t quite figure out why the light is so different in the two photos. I know I didn’t make any adjustments to the camera, so I suppose the sun came out from behind a cloud. The place is a pond in a big cemetery which is like a nature park with varied landscape.

Rose Hips

Rose hips begin to form in spring, and ripen in late summer through autumn.

They are particularly rich in Vitamin C, and are used for herbal tea and soup etc.

The Rose

Gold Turning Silver

Goldenrod – Lat. Solidago – Sw. Gullris

Goldenrod and Rosehips

City Rock

 

A rock covered with ivy is among the first views to meet you when you arrive by railway or bus. This time of the year you get a particularly colourful greeting.

The name of the sculpture is Tornado; if you’re following my other blog The Island of the Voices you might have seen it before.

Mosaic Monday: September Leaves

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Autumn Market

 

 

 

 

PS. More Autumn Market pictures at my blog The Island of the Voices.