When Leaves Begin To Fall

[bogtrotter]

The title when When Leaves Begin To Fall is hardly correct as they have been falling steadily for the last month .
Autumn my favourite time of year, how do you define Autumn do you go by meteorological Autumn the 1st of September
or the astronomical start 22nd September or like me when it just feels like Autumn.
For me the first sign is a subtle change in the light hard to explain but it's just different , the changing colours of leaves as I sit here
at my window looking out I a Gean tree the leaves are already all scarlet a Horse Chestnut a mixture of red and yellow and a Larch
where the needles are glistening gold in the sunshine.
Walking my dogs along the old railway line behind my house there is a myriad colours many more Gean trees in various stages of change
some scarlet some a pinkish shade some yellow and some still green,, the red of the hips of the Dog Rose clashing with the black of the Sloe's
And the ever present bracken now in multiple colours green, red, yellow and brown and in multiple shades of these colours.
A couple of days a go, the 9th of September to be exact I was out and about just as the sun was rising a mist was settled in all the hollows and although
the early morning sun was warm on my back in the shade there was a distinct chill a touch of air frost, that same evening at dusk walking home from my daughter's I heard a stag roar in the forest on the hillside behind my house ,repeated a few minutes later no answering bellow as yet but it's still early yet.






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[Suilven]

Gean tree, that's a new one to me. Had to Google. Thanks for posting.

 

[FrenchieBoy]

I love the Springtime for the new life that it brings but I feel that Autumn is the most colourful time of the year.
It brings back childhood memories of walking to and from school scuffing your shoes through the piles of fallen leaves all along the streets.

 

[Freeforester]

Gean tree, that's a new one to me. Had to Google. Thanks for posting.

They’ve never been bigger nor more prolific here than since I planted these thirty odd year ago.

 

[Cyres]

Autumn started about a week ago and is early. Looks like we having a repeat of 1976 rain wise.
D

 

[Mr Tree]

The title when When Leaves Begin To Fall is hardly correct as they have been falling steadily for the last month .
Autumn my favourite time of year, how do you define Autumn do you go by meteorological Autumn the 1st of September
or the astronomical start 22nd September or like me when it just feels like Autumn.
For me the first sign is a subtle change in the light hard to explain but it's just different , the changing colours of leaves as I sit here
at my window looking out I a Gean tree the leaves are already all scarlet a Horse Chestnut a mixture of red and yellow and a Larch
where the needles are glistening gold in the sunshine.
Walking my dogs along the old railway line behind my house there is a myriad colours many more Gean trees in various stages of change
some scarlet some a pinkish shade some yellow and some still green,, the red of the hips of the Dog Rose clashing with the black of the Sloe's
And the ever present bracken now in multiple colours green, red, yellow and brown and in multiple shades of these colours.
A couple of days a go, the 9th of September to be exact I was out and about just as the sun was rising a mist was settled in all the hollows and although
the early morning sun was warm on my back in the shade there was a distinct chill a touch of air frost, that same evening at dusk walking home from my daughter's I heard a stag roar in the forest on the hillside behind my house ,repeated a few minutes later no answering bellow as yet but it's still early yet.






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Nicely put, beautiful words.
For me, in Norfolk, it is a change in the sky, it seems bigger, until it gets vast and seems to go on for ever, and the way the light catches it behind the clouds, sometimes dark blue, sometimes azure. We still have three House Martin nests being attended, they have young in them still, there is an urgency now to feed them, birds in general are more active, more pigeons in the sky, a couple of large skeins seen. But when those little martins leave, it seems all over for the summer. And I feel older.
Cheers.

 

[Fosbery Holster]

To read your words puts a whole new perspective on the world.

 

[Cyres]

When you start to see skeins of Canada at dusk.
D

 

[Foxyboy43]

Lovely post sir, thank you.
The first sign for us on the East coast of Northern Ireland is usually sound before picture - skeins overflying our house en route to their winter quarters, probably Strangford Lough - so they only have another maybe twenty miles or so of their odyssey left to go.
I always rush outside to watch and wish them God Speed - brings out the wee boy in me every time.
I wasn’t at home when these boys and girls did the flypast but the sainted Lady FB has clearly been infected, bless her…

 

[Klenchblaize]

I love the fitful gust that shakes
The casement all the day,
And from the glossy elm tree takes
The faded leaves away,
Twirling them by the window pane
With thousand others down the lane.

I love to see the shaking twig
Dance till the shut of eve,
The sparrow on the cottage rig,
Whose chirp would make believe
That Spring was just now flirting by
In Summer's lap with flowers to lie.

I love to see the cottage smoke
Curl upwards through the trees,
The pigeons nestled round the cote
On November days like these;
The cock upon the dunghill crowing,
The mill sails on the heath a-going.

The feather from the raven's breast
Falls on the stubble lea,
The acorns near the old crow's nest
Drop pattering down the tree;
The grunting pigs, that wait for all,
Scramble and hurry where they fall.

K

 

[Crowstalker]

I tend to go by 1st September as a start of Autum. I always notic very slight changes in the colours of the leaves around July but you have to look hard for that. I absolutely love Autum I think its a mixture of harvest time, the colours on the trees, duck season, being able to light the fire in the house, salmon reaches my local river, what not to love...

 

[MattJ]

Over 90 in the departure lounge here this morning.