~autumn leaves in my local wood

Is it going to be a colourful autumn, Arlene, or a dull, brown, wet one? It's dull and wet and brown up here, we've not had enough sharp frosts to make the leaves respond with anything like a show of colour. Miserable.
;-(

~because most of these are beech trees they will just go brown but I think we might get a late show of colour in the other trees locally such as Oak Chestnut,Rowan,Hazel and Hornbeam~ I don't want any sort of frost until I have my new greenhouse delivered but we are having some lovely bright days at the moment!

Oh! You're so lucky, Arlene, it's bl@@dy awful up here! The only foliage colour I've got in my garden is the Viburnum opulus which never fails to 'deliver' and the weeping hornbeam. It's very dull!

New greenhouse? FAB! I haven't even got an old one!

How's the cold....are you feeling a bit better?

xxx

~sorry to hear that! temperatures here going to about 5-6 degrees but no frost yet.
Because some of my S African Proteas including a large Cynaroides~king Protea really suffered last year I am having a little green 6 wide by 4 deep roughly with toughened glass to overwinter them.
Next doors cat used to use my 4 by 4 plastic one as a jumping off point to get into our garden and wrecked the roof so I am hoping that this one will fare better!
I have started on the 4flu capsules which are making me feel a bit better during the day but not sleeping well~ hey at least i'ts not getting worse~ not swine flu thank goodness!
How are you?Is it very wet or cold or both?
take care!
Arlene xx

beautiful photo Arlene

Good luck with the new greenhouse Arlene , I hope it arrives quickly for you before any really cold weather ..
You sound a bit worse for wear , get a good nights rest and sleep , get well soon x

Wet AND cold, Arlene! Makes my arthritic knees sieze up completely....rising damp!
Greenhouse sounds great!
Got yourself some warm milk and honey and maybe a wee dram, and off to bed with you!
;-)
xxx

Looks a lovely walk

Morgana~it is nice anytime of year but especially when the bluebells are out~it's fairly dry underfoot too at the moment but those leaves get very slippery when wet!~thanks for the get well wishes~suffer from Arthritis too in the hands knees back and neck but at the moment not too bad!

Yes thats the trouble with leaves they can have you over, my back garden and front is full from the chruch yard every year, they all come into my house back and frount.

~who is that in your Avatar Morgana?

A Witch lol There is a story about my life that frighten even the doctors and nurses on all hallows eve. So I am getting ready for Halloween he he its one in a shop

Lovely photo Arlene!

Hope you feel better soon, Arlene. Lovely pic - right "up my street" so to speak.I love the Autumn colours. A work colleague and her baby have just been quarantined at home with suspected "swine flu". Hope it turns out not to be, for their sakes!

that's awful I hope she and baby are okay!

its a lovely picture Arlene - much nicer without any wild garlic.

~yes Dawn~unfortunately they will all be back next Spring!

Thought so Arlene, sorry to remind you.

Thought so Arlene, sorry to remind you.

Fantastic photo..wonderful place

~ very wet and muddy at the moment Deida with little shoots of wild garlic already coming through~ the stuff spreads like wildfire and every year I am anxious to see how many bluebells there are as they are competing for space~ wasn't too bad this year!

Arlene never seen wild garlic..looking forward to a pic

Deida~ wild garlic is the most obnoxious stuff! ~ it spreads both by little bulbils on the roots and from seed from the flower head and is the devil to get rid of!
Looks like broad lily of the valley leaves with a basic allium type head comprised of about 6 or so small white flowers on a singe stalk~and obviously smells garlicky!
Will try to find a pic for you~

Thanks Arlene

Another lovely woodland view.........