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A November walk home

Walking home this afternoon, I kept stopping. The cotoneaster has flung itself across someone’s garden wall, each leaf bright against the white paint. Rose hips catching the low light. Three types of lichen on the apple tree - grey-green filigree, pale dust, something that looks like tiny antlers.

This is the month for gatherers. Everything that’s left is concentrated now - the last colour before winter, the shapes of things revealed.

At home, I laid the oak leaves out on white paper to really see them - rust and copper and that particular brown that only November makes.

 

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Bryonna D

Love this blog post, which incorporates Jane's idea of her "weekly photo blogs – walks, studio, home, looking at how themes bind them together, how the seasons permeate everything" from her weekly newsletter. I've added this to my "considering" list.

Penny Follows

I feel very inspired by this post with such lovely photos. I'm wondering now about writing a short note of my daily walks, with photographs, on my tablet. I already keep a handwritten journal. It would be purely for my own interest but it occurs to me that this would a lovely way to look back at previous years.

Joan Hunn

Jane, I am wondering what bush that is in the photo just below the oak leaves. It is located on the far right and appears to be pruned. Thank you for sharing your lovely Scottish countryside.

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