The combination of early morning dew and sunshine at this time of year is magical and you can have great fun with the long shadows! John Keats in his 1820 poem 'To Autumn' describes it as the 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'. Walking in the countryside all year round makes you acutely aware of the change of seasons, and this is one of the things that keeps it interesting.
Today is the Autumn Equinox - day and night are of equal length. So from now until December 21st, the hours of daylight will be getting shorter and we will soon be walking in the dark!
Much as I love man-made sculpture, there is something about the formations found in nature that stimulates one's imagination to form figures, faces or objects - look at the rotting tree trunk pictured above. What do you see? I see an acrobatic figure doing a back bend!
We were on our way home, thinking we had seen the sights for today, when we were stopped in our tracks by this enormous fungi growing on a bark. I certainly had never seen anything quite like it before. Would love to find out what it is as I have been trying to identify it, without success. I think it might be edible, but as I do not know anything about fungi I would never take a chance on eating any without expert advice!!
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