November’s last day
the autumn carpet’s still spread
green copper gold
Tag: Nature
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka
This tree calls to me
calls to me each November
quietly whispers
don’t worry see you in spring
then we will both be renewed
Berries and lace
Look what I spotted today!
In mediaeval times autumn was a busy month for the women of a family. It was the last chance to harvest the bounty of the hedgerows, to gather berries, nuts and seeds, to dry and preserve for the long winter months.
I don’t think the berries above are edible, just rather pretty cascading between the remaining lace of the leaves.
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day:
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Bronte
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Sunsets golden light
on patchwork Dartmoor valley
autumn equinox
Mirror
The weekly photo challenge, I can’t believe it’s Friday again, but I’m really happy as I have two weeks leave now.
Jen H chose Mirror as the them for the challenge this week, and left us to interpret it in any way we like. I went to Bystock Ponds last weekend, and it was a lovely day for reflections, here’s one of my captures.
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Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Hunting for pumpkins
running up the summer hill
towards ripe autumn
An odd image . . .
. . . just because I like it!
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka
Late summer calling
with the lowest hum of heat,
from earth and from air.
Hay harvested, the soil waits
for a thunderstorm to break.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Stones of the Solent
gathered by my G-babies
geology kids
Fungi in the park
I’ve been watching this fungi in the park for a couple of weeks, wondering what it is. It’s growing on an oak tree that was planted in 1911, to mark the coronation of George V and Queen Mary. The tree has had an interesting time of it, in the summer of 2009, it cracked down through its middle. Tree surgeons were able to rescue it, by reducing the crown, they say it will last another hundred years.
When I saw the fungus, I though it looked like a batch of currant buns! From what I discovered, it seems I was on the right lines.
I think they are a kind of bracket fungus, with Bread Roll Fungus for it’s common name. Unless you know any different?
Lucid Gypsy 