We’re celebrating the equinox with a collection of images reflecting the transition from summer to autumn.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
– From To Autumn, John Keats
Woodland pasture in Seymour Grove [OS ref SK 61630 68535]
A sunny wall on High Street, Edwinstowe [OS ref SK 62601 66809]
Apples on Church Street, Edwinstowe [OS ref SK 62569 66957]
Oak and birch growing side by side [OS ref SK 62398 67639
Many-zoned Polypore (Coriolus Versicolor) in Seymour Grove [OS ref SK 61630 68535]
Mossy bank in Birklands [OS ref SK 60747 67584]
Broad Drive, Birklands [OS ref SK 60881 67627]