October skies

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In The Enchanted Village, we are enjoying the strong light of October, the month that is to winter what May is to summer.

The early morning frost sprinkles like fairy dust from passing Land Rovers. Wood smoke rises from the chimneys as we crunch through brown beech leaves.

In the afternoon, cows graze under Flemish landscape painting skies and at night, a waning Blood Moon holds court over an impressive Orion and ever-present Plough.

Oh, the joys of autumn.

That’s about it.

Love Maddie x

Comments

  1. Anonymous25 October 2010 at 12:31

    In pictures and from personal observations, English skies are very like Melbourne, Australian skies. Maybe not our summer sky though. The crispness of the air is visible.

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  2. Pondside26 October 2010 at 00:29

    The photo is unreal. The colours of sky and field - perfect.

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  3. BirdyGirl26 October 2010 at 18:11

    Beautiful photo - it looks so tranquil and I love the way the clouds look so close to the ground.

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