Last weekend, in between the English Touring Opera’s concerts at Snape Maltings , I squeezed in an envigoratingly blowy morning on the Orford marshlands, stretching out into the North Sea and silvered by a lurking sun. Although now a remote village, home to summer visitors, some local fisherman and Pinney’s oysterage and smokery, medieval Orford …
More autumn colour
I am not sure what this glorious yellow tree is, but isn’t it wonderful. Leaning down the slope onto the Kenwood Lawns. Looking up that slope to the beech avenue and the upper lawns, there is a fine leaf carpet. And just turn slightly to your left and there are Henry Moor’s Seated figures gazing …
Flaming autumn
What an amazing tree. I think it must be a maple but I have never seen a tree turn from dark green to golden red branch by branch like this. Here is one of the redder branches…. and here a delicate pale yellow and pink. This multi coloured tree was down by the lake at …
Reappearance of the swan family – and a long walk
I have had numerous sightings of a pair of swans on the boating pond recently – on this occasion being investigated by a curious if slightly foolhardy moorhen. However, I had not seen sight nor sound of the swan family and was seriously wondering whether the cygnets had all been whisked off a good deal …
Autumn in Highgate Lane
I hadn’t actually appreciated, when pulling metres of clinging tendrils out with the over grown ivy earlier in the year, that what I was pulling out was Virginia creeper – which would burst into a brief blaze of crimson glory come the dark days of October – as indeed it has. Fortunately, it is incredibly …
Horsenden Hill and the Grand Union Canal
This is the tree that tops Horsenden Hill – a wonderfully rolling and hilly park that separates Greenford and Sudbury in West London. Apart from the hill, Horsendens East and West boast one and a half golf courses, lots of open space (on which cattle graze in the summer), a community farm – and the …