Autumnal Gold

A picture post, thanks to Nature's way of getting rid of waste...

Golden Leaves
A Norway Maple at its very best.

All those lovely leaf colours we get in Autumn are the trees pumping waste products into the leaves before letting them fall... we then gather them up if they are in the garden and try and recreate what happens naturally in the woods... the manufacture of leaf mould... one of the best soil additives out.
It is all part of the Carbon Cycle...

A lone Field Maple...
glowing at the edge of the wood.

Autumn colour
Two yellow Field Maples and a very red Sumac give colour to this view.
[The evergreens provide contrast.]

Three Trees Four
Four [yes, four,] Norway Maples... but one has no leaves.

On Golden Pond
Just a bit of Photoshop fun...

So thank you Carbon Cycle for your Autumn glory!

Osprey on migration

This afternoon we came out of the laiterie by chance, to see an Osprey [Balbuzard pêcheur] Pandion haliaetus heading across our meadow and away southeast. How lucky can you get!