Trees in Autumn; Somerset

This image of trees in Autumn was taken in the grounds of a Hotel in Somerset some years ago. It represents the end of the display of Autumn colour; two or three weeks later these trees would have been bare. Even so, many of the leaves are already on the ground. It is a nice example of Perspective, but also manages to offer both vertical and horizontal eye-lines; the vertical tree trunks contrasting with horizontal shadows on the ground. 

Like many people, I love Autumn, not least for the way it demands you seize the day. A fine day in Autumn has to be enjoyed. The experience has a degree of poignancy in it because you know it may the last one before winter sets in. Also like many people I too have my favourite Autumn quotes: 

' When the white Eagle of the North is flying overhead, and the reds, browns and golds of Autumn lie in the gutter, dead' that's from the Moody Blues. 

'It was my thirtieth year to heaven, stood there then in the summer noon

Though the town below stood leaved with October blood', that's Dylan Thomas

Through Autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way, 

You always loved this time of year, that's from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

Ah! the gold and the red and the sighing of leaves in the Autumn in Taur-na-neldor, That's Treebeard in the Lord of the Rings.

So anyway, this image is for you. Remember, Spring will come again!