The other day while on my covid-approved walk near home, it was too windy to find many winged things and take decent photos of them. So instead, I started taking snaps of as many different autumn colours as I could easily find and focus.
A Slow-paced Rainbow Walk
Red sumac leaves
Strawberry leaves vary: some are a lovely rusty red
Some wild Rose hips, possibly Rugosa, probably not!
Oak leaves appropriately enough on a Red Oak
One type of red leaves on a Maple
And a quite different type of red Maple leaves
These were a type of Crabapple: there are quite a few shapes and sizes in the Meadows.
Pink Euonymous possibly a Spindle sapling
and pink ‘stems’ holding the white fruit of the Grey Dogwood
Orange You Glad We’ve Finished with Red?
Orange Maple leaves (I didn’t say we’d run out of Maples!)
Mysterious orange fruit: perhaps yet another Crabapple?
See, more Maples ! These ones were more yellow.
And more yellow Maples
Hmm. I guess this Goldenrod was swaying a bit too much in the wind. It’s is yellow though.
I call these plants ‘wild asparagus’ but to be honest I have never checked whether that is what they are. They have now turned a lovely bright yellow.
There was still one stem of Viper’s Bugloss in bloom. The others have turned silver.
This fly was a sparkling blue in real life: I don’t seem to have caught the light properly.
These Buckthorn berries are a deep indigo blue. And the immature White-Crowned Sparrow is about to discover they are not easy on its tummy.
And that’s my rainbow such as it is. I admit it was more colourful with the blue sky above than on this little screen.
I hope you have a chance to enjoy a safe walk this autumn, too!
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