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Trick or treat,  in Autumn glory

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I had no real intention to post today but I couldn’t resist sharing a little of this joy.  I managed to escape for a few hours to Thorp Perrow Arboretum yesterday.  I made it the subject of a Monday walk around this time last year, so I remarked to my husband that the camera would probably stay tucked in my pocket.  He didn’t believe me, and nor should you.

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The leaves were wonderfully crispy.  Just perfect for hurling in the air, or over poor Dad.  I couldn’t help but smile, the youngsters were so gleeful.

From in amongst the glorious foliage, squeals and screams emerged, accompanied by rapidly clapping hands.  The applause, correctly performed, caused the eyes of the witches and skeletons to gleam- a source of great entertainment for young and old alike.

Surprising how much one Autumn can differ from another.  The sky was bluer when I was here last, but the trees in this 100 acres of woodland seemed less vivid.  This year the assault on my senses was overwhelming.

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The Halloween activities finish this weekend, but the Autumn colour may last a little while yet.  If you’re in the area, Thorp Perrow is a beautiful place to be, as was Jude’s Bolfrack’s Garden this month.  I’m squeezing in at the very last minute but there’ll be a new theme for the Garden Challenge on Sunday.

I’m also running out of time for Verena’s Festival of Leaves.  Oh dear!  Such a lot happening in my six words.  Can’t argue with Cate’s six words this week!  Let’s get out there and kick some leaves.  See you on Monday!

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  6. You found a beautiful spot to visit on an autumn day. It’s overcast here today and sprinkling off and on, and yet, as you said above, the colors are vibrant.

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  10. Autumn is very colourful this year, but not so many days with blue sky instead it has been very gray and rainy here. Lovely colours of leaves and red trees, an I do like those skelletons and whitches.

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  13. Such vibrant colors! Autumn is here… Last year, back east, we experienced it fully. Now, out west, we just see a little bit of yellow. The temperatures are dropping, but the few palm trees will remain green (I assume). 🙂 All I seem to think is how much I like the tropics and hate the winter. We might have to go back south.

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    1. I have to admit I never look forward to Winter, Liesbet, and it always follows hard on the heels of even the loveliest Autumn. The clocks go forward here this weekend and we’re plunged into early gloom 😦

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    1. I actually haven’t taken a camera anywhere with me since we came back to the UK, Mlissabeth. Dad died while we were over there and it has taken the wind out of my sails.

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  15. Thank you for assaulting my senses too. This is a wonderful tribute to autumn, and to the way the world always demands a camera. I’m reeling a bit. J returns to Australia on Tuesday. Decided this morning and bought a ticket at the airport. Your post anchored me in beauty!

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    1. Oh, Meg! That’s sudden 😦 Weather getting to him? You’ll find twin minding much harder without him, and how’s he going to explain to them he’s missing home? I’ve a good mind to march over there and give him a piece of my mind! (just a small one- I can’t spare much 😦 ) I’m sorry, hon. Not going to change his mind?

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      1. Ticket’s bought. He’s ambivalent, but he hasn’t been absolutely well for six weeks, and he’s not getting better. Yes it will be harder with the twins and they dote on him. I anticipate weaning time. He’s planning to come back after 6 weeks R&R in the bush. I know him of old, and a piece of anybody’s mind would make no difference: his own mind is serving up anything we could offer!

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      2. That would bring him back in time for Christmas. Maybe not so bad then, to have him feeling fully fit? Think how swiftly 6 weeks can go. Wish I could be there to help.

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  16. Impossible to take a camera and expect it to stay in your pocket. Now what good would that do? I think the trees are much more colourful this year perhaps because they had that lovely hot spell in early September that pushed out all those sugars 🙂 I know on my drive to Surrey last week I was very pleased to see the colours lining the roads – red, burgundy, pink, copper, bronze, yellow – almost as good as New England! Should have stopped in a parking layby and grabbed a few shots. Not much in the way of trees here. I am always reluctant to kick leaves though in case there is dog poo lurking beneath…

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  19. Fall is such a beautiful season, don´t you think dear Jo?… I am now wondering if it looks even better than spring…at least when it comes to photography… In any case, sending love and best wishes from this Springful Southern Hemisphere of mine!!!!: Aquileana 😀

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