November is cold with flame.
blue lilac
flame
earth
lichen
rose
magenta
silk blue
lit gold
grey
1st
Blue lilac air.
Furnace gold leaves.
Elegant lines of branches —
weaving green with black.
2nd
Trees creak and rush.
Flame leaves blow and curl —
held in the wind.
3rd
Today a strong stillness.
A calm grey weightedness.
Trees deepening fire.
4th
Beech woods.
Bronze molten leaves.
Red stained shadows.
5th
Gentle mist filled day.
Changing lights of flame and gold.
6th
The earth shines.
A blackbird shakes its wings,
silver with light,
scattering dew drops in the bright air.
7th
A rich, heavy light.
Shock of yellow leaves.
8th
Leaves fall — slowly.
The air is still and grey,
lit with the clarity of winter.
9th
Lichened branches glistening black —
fiery with radiant leaves of copper and rose
in a pale blue sky.
10th
Drenching rain.
Dark branches wrapped in green soaked moss.
11th
Subdued, misted light.
Purple hills.
Blue shadowed woods
beneath lilac clouds.
12th
White sun in a lit sky.
Bright mist. Blue hedges.
Deep magenta shadows in the beeches.
13th
On the briar and hawthorn,
raindrops glitter blue and silver —
tiny stars in tangled darkness.
14th
Ordinary day.
Gem gold.
Riotous light emboldening the green,
making flames of the beech leaves,
shining the rain,
pooling gold beneath the trees.
15th
Bronze chestnut trees glow,
poised in the early fire of morning.
16th
It is raining sunshine today.
Each drop a fall of light.
17th
A wild day.
Charged, sweeping rain through the valley.
Radiant sky at evening —
pale grey and silk blue,
traced with gold.
18th
Misted fire.
Carved stone trunks of beech.
19th
Fine light.
Holly berries shine red and full
held on high branches in a blue deep sky.
20th
Ice sharp air.
Scent of snow.
Star lit darkness.
21st
Rose mist.
Grey green branches
hazed with light.
22nd
Amber sky.
Purple grey clouds.
Moon luminous in the twilight.
23rd
Hawthorns full of blackbirds — feasting.
Beech trees, still golden in the woods.
24th
Grey.
Wind wrapped, wet leaves.
First traces of bare etched beech.
25th
Quiet air in the valley.
Rush and roar of wind over the grey hills.
26th
Hedges cut along one side of the lane —
curves of thorn and tangle, tamed to winter geometry.
The other side —
brazen shoots of hazel jostled by the wind
Stray leaves, gold and round, catch the sunshine.
27th
Wild star night.
28th
Blue rushing sky.
Rain.
Fields illuminated in green radiance.
Clouds lit from sunshine beyond the storm.
29th
Cloud stillness.
Blue fields in chill mist,
charcoal edged.
30th
A gauzy lilac day.
Shadow misted woods.
White sky.