Autumn at its best

After a Saturday with torrential rain, Sunday's blue sky and gentle breezes diverted my walk home from the farmers market through the park. Still enough foliage on the trees, but lots underfoot in a riot of colours and shapes as well. You want to take home these scenes of gorgeousness, to keep them against the winter, and how better than with far too many photographs...

The lovely little white clouds, and the big old trees

The boating lake and a pleasing array of overwintering boats

To get the reflections you have to hold your phone/camera right down on the ground

Wildlife is mostly of the birdy sort -

A randomness of pigeons...

 

... and a regiment of seagulls ...

... and every park worth its salt has a swan or two

These trees reminded me so much of the walk along the Camino, six months ago -

 At the exit from the park, a fastigiate hornbeam looking splendid -

Later, up hill and down dale to dinner cooked in the rapidly-evolving, but not-finished-quite-yet, new kitchen -

 ... and back home through the leafy streets, taking in the panorama of "downtown" - always a pleasure, from a distance at least! -