If you go down to the woods today..................

WOW! MARVELOUS BLOG! Pippa this is Amazing, Colorful Trees, WOW! Stunning and Brilliant Blog, Pippa And very enjoyable moment with the Chutney king Stevie and Lulu was wonderful, Is she the one hanging on the branch of the tree? Hehehe! Terrific! How i wish to be with you guys:-o))))

What a fantastic blog. The colours are amazing. I often wish we could mix the colours of summer an autumn, can you imagine that? You look to have had a wonderful time. I particularly like the last photo with dogs in front of a blazing fire. Truely magicical. Thank you for sharing your day with us x

Yes it certainly looks as though you all had a fab day together. Thanks for sharing. The dogs look worn out.

Beautiful acers, photos, comments and all together a lot of information.
Thank you very much for sharing the beauties of autumn.

Love your words along with the Acers and beautiful photos!
Wasn't it stunning.
It was a very orange day... marmalade, acers and orange bowls!ps I don't usually climb acers....those branches were particularly strong!

I will have to use my photos in a different way!!

One very special blog Sticki, brought a tear to my eye :) Think it was the sheer beauty of it all, plus the music, I so love Enya, tis my fave. season too. Nice to see the Goy gang together again.

The colours of the trees are absolutely stunning, i have enjoyed my walk with you and the gang, I had to pass on the lunch though, can`t touch marmalade, lol, love the photo`s Sticki, thanks for sharing another of your grand days out.....

many thanks everyone ~ its really a big thank you to the trees and autumn! as well as to lulu and stevie!

yes Junna, thats lulu on the tree!

that fire was perfect waddy ~ i think i will come back as a dog!

linda ~ the dogs were lying down after their tea!

lovely season isnt it katarina!

definitely an orange day lulu ~ but i dont feel as if i have been tango'd!!

thanks GM ~ i love enya too ~ i have most of her cd's! The Goy gang ~ i like that!

i can promise you lincslass it was a very different marmalade ~ this one has spices in! it was really good on toast but i think its going to work with all sorts of meats too! yummy! and the garlic chilli bread ~ is the best!!!

Stunning pictures and a great day out for you all.
I couldn't get the link to work - unavailable apparently!!
I don't know what the music was Sticki but as I was reading the words from the chorus of the 80's song Karma Chaemeleon by Culture Club was playing in my head

Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon,
you come and go, you come and go.
Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams,
red gold and green, red gold and green.

thanks meadowland

sorry scottish ~ funny how one minute something is on you tube and the next its gone

i have changed it now, try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiKm93w0j-o

it was meant to be Enya, a day without rain but i think the original link went through to the whole album?

i like the verse you added though

I love the colours of autumn - nothing better than a crisp walk through the park - those spirits of the wood are spectacular - we saw something similar a while ago - not far from Primrose Hill in London - we have the colours of autumn in Shropshire today but we also have the mist and murk to go with them !!

A gorgeous blog full of Autumns finest shades Sticki..Looks like it was a lot of fun..A really stunning set of photos, this is going into my favs..\0/x

A truly wonderful blog, the colours and shapes are stunning and I too love the last picture of the fires and sleepy dogs so cosy and warm;0)

what a superb place to be - - - just be !! magic !!

Stunning........

I found the music Ok Sticki, and then it went on to play all my faves, love Stars & Midnight blue, do you know this one? Sigh. so lovely.

Wonderful blog Stickie...Autumn is such a beautiful season...:>)

thanks marigold, its misty and murky here today but the forecast wasnt good for yesterday either, but the day was dry and the glow from the leaves was all we needed!

it was fun, thanks flori

couldnt be cosier PP! how sluggy didnt burn her nose i do not know!

magic is the right word bampy! its beyond the imagination!

thanks DD

GM i think i may have stars and midnight blue on one of the albums, when i added the link it had all the songs of one album on it but when scottish said she had a problem i tried it out and got the same result as she did. so i changed it for a single song. youtube is very good ~ i have it on a lot!!

it is beautiful isnt it motinot, sometimes almost unbelievably and staggeringly brilliant colours!

Magnificent colours and stunning photographs.

Those acers were just beautiful, thanks for sharing your day out :o)

wonderful pics, wonderful blog, you've really got me thinking now, hmm shall I use the gladiator theme for my blog ; )
excellent colours there, captured really well, who could want more?
(except maybe a very similar blog with more or less identical pics ; )

Stunning !!

Wow!!!! mind blowing pics once again, almost lost for words. I've not been enjoying the dying of the year, but your pics have made me rethink somewhat:-)

thank you wildrose, geranium gem and cinderella

gladiator theme stevie ~ yes please ~ i love that one!!
and yes please we would like more!!

its such a lovely place BA but i went to the arboretum in Arley on Sunday, thats lovely too ~ a bit nearer you.

WOOOOOO Stickitoffee what a wonderful blog and the colours are spectacular, i would love to paint them :0)

and i would love to see your painting Sue! please!
trees are amazing arent they!

one needs to invent more names for the shades of colour that appear this time of the year, thank you so much for sharing

great blog and pictures.What lovely autumn colours:)))))

We should get inventing Fran! I always use the same words........Glowing, beautiful, stunning, wow, graceful....!!

its a bit like a paint chart isnt it fran! i like names for colours!

thanks mark

i like words like glowing cos they conjure up warmth as well as brilliance.

so shall we write a Goy dictionary of colour?

I love the gladiator theme another fave!
Sticki maybe start a blog for 'Colour' and we can all contribute!! :)

ok, GM, i will have a think ~ is there music to go with that too??

Stunning colours love the dog photo

a BLUSH of reds.

i love the colours and the cosy dogs too sixpence

thats a good one bampy! i like that one!

waow i have to agree with you, autumn is my favourite season for colour, its sometimes heavenly especially with the sunsets and clouds, the acers are wonderfull, beautiful blog, thankyou x

thanks andrea, you are right ~ the sunsets and clouds make autumn the winner by a long way ~ i love beautiful skies!

PINK gin

Oh! That made me giggle! What a surprise! Don't think I have ever tried it? Only tried sloe gin!

RED vodka ; )

White rum, (bombay) sapphire gin!
If toffee is a colour there is very nice toffee vodka!

Sticki......thinking about music.....maybe four seasons? or music from Lord of the rings? The balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet......The English patient.......Thais, Meditation.......Shindlers list......Air on a G string....Bruch violin concerto..........I could go on. :)
Tis nearly midnight now, am off to bed but have given you some things to think about! Lol

Breathtaking pictures. Thanks for sharing Stickitoffee

Thanks GM I will have a listen, I did try autumn from the four seasons for this one

Thanks klahanie, you are welcome

music sound track - - 'Spiegel im Spiegel' by Arvo Part.

http://youtu.be/B8qg_0P9L6c

Make a cuppa & take 9 mins out & listen to this amazingingly calm & simple reflective piece.
Imagine walking through the trees.

Bampy that is incredibly and deeply relaxing ~ thank you!

if i knew how to put it on an ipod to listen to while i went to sleep i would do!!!

smiles, iTunes or Amazon music download might have the track, so long as you know title and artist. But Amazon is a bit of a drag, it only lets you listen to about five seconds of the intro - I've bought three versions of Larry Adler's "summertime", and none of them is hte one I'm looking for, the one Torvil & Dean skated to

ps or YouTube Downloader! this is a free software, you install it into your pc and then you can download video clips - and it can convert videos to mp3. Of course you've then got to get it off your pc and on to your music player, but you'd have to do that however you got the music

I would say to sum up the grandeur of the trees and us three would be somewhere between

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Rw0bi7xzM
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjS1nrsJhTQ

wow Stevie thats the best summing up i have ever seen ~ wish you could write school reports like that!

simply brilliant

or maybe more for Lulu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYNuU6Xtms

i dread to think which clip lulu will find for you!!!

Wow, wow and WOW! What fabulous pictures. Thanks, Sticki!

Do you know melchi, the forecast wasnt good and we wondered if it would be ok to go, forecast was fog, drizzle, rain etc.

those trees ~ and the company, made me feel as if the sun shone all day!! it was actually cloudy ~ but you would never have known!!! the trees glowed instead!!!

Sticki do you have Itunes, attached to your Ipod. I have and thats how I downnload my music.

um, im not sure, ?? i can do a few things on the camera, the computer the smart phone etc but for some reason i have never got used to the ipod.

oh, i know i will take it to my sons this weekend ~ he will explain it to me ~ again!!!!!! thanks GM. alternatively i might be able to google how to do it???

Have you tried Spotify, the range of music is breathtaking!! ideal for just listening to a track or an album, as long as you do not mind the ads, iTunes is simple to use if you have an account but Amazon is cheaper.......

Oh, ok, thanks DD I didnt know about that, I will have a look.

Great pics Sticki.....such fantabulous colours, which we missed by a few days, in 2009. We went with a group. It was a lovely visit and we had a good meal at a nearbye hotel afterwards, and I had a surprise birthday cake too, which made me feel happy on November the sixth. I wish we could have seen it as you have recorded it just that few days earlier. I love the picture of the three dogs asleep on the stool in front of the wood burner.

What a wonderful autumnal, colourful blog! This is how it should be done, blog writing, I gather! Tis truly lovely and my favourite time of the year. What gorgeous trees! I love 'em! I am envious - where is this please?? :^) going to save you to my favourites and look at part 2! lol Michelle x

Fantabulous!!

Amazing photos and glorious colours, always wanted to
visit Westonbirt in Autumn. Thanks for the visual visit :-)

Absolutely FABULOUS love the twisted trunks of the Acers against the wonderful colours....never been must go,date in the diary for next year.Off to Malta friday no chance of ANYTHING like that there.Took my breath away thanks for sharing Stickie X

Thanks dorjac, sorry you missed the colours but sounds like you had a good time! Happy birthday for next month!

Thanks Michelle, I'm feeling embarrassed now! This is in Gloucestershire, north of Bristol.

Many thanks Jane, nanjo and poppylinda.

Gorgeous!!!

What a beautiful and colourful blog, Sticki - and I very nearly missed it, too. Thank you so much for sharing it. I think Autumn is possibly my favourite season and these pictures embody it. We lit our stoves for the first time two days ago, and although the leaves here haven't really started to turn or fall yet, it won't be long now - there's snow on our hills and a nip in the air. Leaf-kicking and soup days can't be far away! Straight into favourites.

Thanks sixpence

Thanks gattina, bet that stove is lovely and warm, already doing soup but no snow yet!

Don't wish it on yourself!

:-)

such pretty acers sticki and wouldnt it be great if we had these colours all year long,
glad you all had fun and good grub to :o)

it would be lovely to keep seeing those colours, you are right, thanks sanbaz, very good grub and good fun too!