These tall seed crowns stand together like a small choir in the hazy early autumn sunshine, soft clouds of their out of focus siblings obscuring their stark stems and transforming them gently. Everything around them is soft and dreamy, as if the air itself has turned to cream. The palette is pale gold and warm… Continue reading Tattered Autumn Lace
Category: Autumn Gold
Hue of autumn gold, rust, red, and orange.
Fading Fern
A fading fern frond lies against the dark, its frills crisped to a deep autumnal brown and gold. Yet in the centre, a few stubborn leaflets still glow with unexpected life, washed in green as if holding on to the memory of summer. The living colour seems to pulse against the withered edges … a… Continue reading Fading Fern
The Parasite’s Quilt
Tucked into the hedgerows, where the wild roses climb and curl, a strange thing grows in the warm early autumn sun. It looks like a sea urchin woven from fairy floss – pink and green, frizzed and fine, like something a woodland sprite might use as a hairbrush. But this isn’t a fruit, or a… Continue reading The Parasite’s Quilt
Last of the Summer Wine
A plump bumblebee drinks the last of summer’s nectar from the spire of a pale lilac Toadflax flower. The late summer evening backlights both the inset and the flower, casting them in a gold dreamy haze.
A Dream of Ferns
An old gold fern curls gently in a beige brown dream of autumn, its delicate foliage feathery and gentle. It hints only at a memory of summer’s vibrant green, but tells the story of the turn of autumn toward winter.
Autumn Lavender
Lilac lavender backlit by autumn gold evening light. Soft fronds of lilac spires dance in the hour before sunset.
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