September gathers mist and twilight.

gold

ochre

amber

purple

deep green

indigo

hawthorn red

blue grey

silver

lilac

1st

Gold fields, curved over by swallows.

Hedges wild —

tangled with briar —

etched with stems and seedheads,

2nd

Lanes edged with purple flowers, shadows and pale grasses.

Hawthorns jewelled with red berries and bronze leaves

Swallows dashing over the trees.

3rd

Warm green day,

wind moving the leaves.

A rise and fall of sunlight and calm.

4th

Fields dipping gold

into the green hollow of the valley.

5th

Neatly curved and folded land, bound by blowing hazel.

Fields edged by bowed and broken grasses.

The woods are stately and dark,

deep shadowed before their blaze.

6th

Rich yellow light

dappled by the shadow of leaves.

Swallows fly arcs in the blue

7th

Deep night sky.

Bright stars.

An owl calls in the rustling darkness.

8th

Oak trees stand, gracious and full,

in a sweep of golden fields.

9th

The morning sky is radiant —

lit emerald blue under a purple sweep of cloud.

Rose amber light shining above.

10th

Mist tempered hills.

Sky and land swirled into blue.

11th

Grey haze of morning

Butterflies trace the tops of green blowing trees.

12th

Layers of cloud — grey, purple and stained blue.

Hawthorn trees heavy with berries in the still air.

13th

A rich glaze of thick sunshine and blue mist.

14th

Misted fields lit with early sunshine.

The earth is rinsed of colour but alive with brightness.

The mist glows — diffusing the light.

15th

Spun drifts of spiderweb

Dew soaked leaves.

16th

Azure day.

Indigo shadows over bright fields.

17th

A warm, glossy, golden light.

In the orchard, wet green grass under weighted boughs,

heavy with fruit.

18th

Warm wind

filled with the scent of grass and ripening apples.

Amber light over the fields.

19th

The fields are heavy with rain.

Drenched and pooled under a silver sky.

20th

Bronze evening light over the solemn green of the woods.

Fields lit, cut pale or newly ploughed.

21st

Blue dusk.

Raindrops falling through hedgerows.

Hazels alive with the sound of bees.

22nd

In the hedgerows,

garlands of scarlet berries of honeysuckle,

creamy tendrils of clematis, dark hawthorn and blackberries.

Fields gold.

Blue haze sky.

23rd

Silver day.

Misted rain.

Soft wind.

Song of doves.

24th

Beech trees deepening to bronze.

25th

Wild blown grasses

bowing in the wind —

ochre and brown,

bright with the glow of Autumn.

26th

A gauzy day.

Lilac and gold.

Threaded with wings.

27th

A blue bright day.

Clouds in procession.

Fields a pattern of straw and fire.

28th

Hawthorn and rose-hips

are red and glossy in the hedges.

Shining pale green acorns among dark oak leaves.

Beech mast clustered on branch tips

and scattered over the path.

29th

Silver brightness

over purple shadowed hills.

30th

Layers of lilac and violet mist,

rising through trees, gathering in hollows

Hills radiant with rose light.

Land transfigured by morning.