October flares embered.

copper

bronze

ember

dove grey

blue woodsmoke

stone red

flame orange

deep yellow

golden green

scarlet

1st

Glazed morning.

Grey blue fields edged with amber lit grasses.

2nd

Sweet apple air and leaves blowing.

3rd

The sky is stained with yellow light,

leaves edged with gold.

4th

Mist and fire.

Ember light in the trees.

Blue woodsmoke.

Sound of rooks.

5th

Autumn has come.

Warm, grey-clouded wind,

blown copper-lemon leaves.

6th

Startling light.

Blue deep sky. Rain washed.

Bright shadowed clouds.

Hawthorn and rose hip are jewelled clusters in the hedges.

7th

Spice of bracken and earth.

Blue hills.

Red leaves.

8th

In early light, the earth is shining —

brown and stone red.

Horses run and gleam over the wet grass,

casting the morning from their manes.

9th

A simple grey day —

torn open at evening with vivid storm light.

10th

Lilac mist over the fields.

Hills a pale fire.

11th

Blue-grey woodsmoke,

bronze leaves

in still weighted air.

12th

A golden day.

Spun gold, threads through the trees.

Golden-green grass.

Golden leaves in a golden misted haze.

13th

Shaken quivering light.

Flame leaves.

Indigo shadowed grass.

14th

Flare of red, bronze and yellow leaves in quiet grey.

15th

Stately beech trees alight in shadowed stillness.

16th

Peaceful grey clouds.

Quiet fields.

Misted rain.

17th

Lilac shining sky.

Clouds lit by a delicate amber brightness.

18th

In the clouded grey,

trees burn yellow.

19th

Shaken sheets of rain in a dove grey sky.

Blue bronze oaks on the hills.

20th

I walked in the grey blue twilight.

Warm air, fragrant with apple and woodsmoke.

Rain soaked earth.

21st

A held stillness of radiant grey.

Red, leaves among grey-green branches.

Dark earth.

22nd

Grey simplicity.

Beeches bronze in the rain filled air.

23rd

A moonlit night after rain.

Blue silver clouds in fragments.

Raindrops

falling through hedges in quiet music.

24th

Luminous grey clouds over low mist in the valley.

Yellow cut leaves

among wet, dark-etched bark of hawthorn.

25th

Grey steady skies.

A bronze arch above us as we walked the lane.

Scattered gold and flame leaves at our feet.

26th

In the dark thorned hedges are scarlet rosehips,

constellations of new green ivy berries

and gold hazel leaves.

27th

Blue smoke rising before copper trees.

Lit silver wings of rooks in the white air.

28th

Grasses an amber flame,

alight with the rose of morning.

29th

Drenching rain.

Field maple leaves are red stepping stones

in the river of the lane.

Beech hedges glow in the grey.

30th

Cool air.

Scented with earth.

A rush of gathering storm in the treetops,

scattering rain and leaves.

31st

Stone air.

The woods are leaf bright

flame orange and ember red.