Sunday and Chris and I are off driving around Wirral on a lovely sunny day, we wanted to find the flavors of Autumn, the colour, the crispness, the floaty leaves, the beautiful reflections. Cough cough, can someone tell the trees in Wirral its time!
We went to Rabymere, its owned by the Angling Society people so you cant walk around it and anyway the trees were still green, we went to Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve, green trees, we went to Portsunlight in Bromborough, better but not great, we went to Caldy (mega rich big houses, i could tell you its where my Dad grew up but the wrong impression would be gained. He did grow up there but was the gardeners son 😉 ) We went to Arrowe Park which was also ok. BUT not what i wanted. Am i too early for autumnal colour? Will it happen or is it going to be a ‘damp squib’, come on trees put on your Autumnal shades, Canada and America will not outdo us! anyway i can’t afford to go there just now. I think i will leave it a little longer and try again, you never know it may be we are just having a late Autumn.
If that is so, one thing, why are the trees alongside the roads changing colour? Pollution?
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Karen and I went on a quest for Autumn
beautiful
Indeed you captured the flavors of autumn
Even though it’s green, it’s still really pretty. I love the colors of fall, too, but in California they take awhile to get here!
its taking its own sweet time here too! we have had a lot of rain, maybe that is a factor.
I love the idea of a ‘quest for Autumn’ Chris ~ down here in Worcestershire the trees are beginning to turn, lots of yellows but fewer oranges / reds than we might expect ~ the seasons are out of kilter ie I suspect we’ll get a v.late autumn because of all the rain we’ve had this year … we’ll see 🙂
Then why are the trees at the side of the roads turning beautiful colours, i cant photograph that, its boring! going to take my camera and have a go anyway. 🙂
Your photos here are splendid Karen (apols for referring to you as Chris earlier) so I’d love to see what you come up with once you’ve had ‘a go.’
i have a few ideas, we shall just have to wait and see.
oh and dont worry Chris and i reblog each other all the time. 😉
We went to Ness on Sunday – and I had the same feeling….a couple of weeks too early.
Yes it would seem so, we had more luck this weekend though not where it was expected and the best image i have, i think, is from a tree just down the road from my house!