I was beginning to feel a bit cheated by Mother Nature this autumn – what had she done with all the traditional colours?
Around here, the reddy-golds have been in very short supply.
But today I realised there were other little gems to discover…
The bracken fronds were dripping with diamonds…
Hips were doing an impression of a firework going off…
And hiding among the shiny wet leaves….
were these little chaps – yes, they really are that delicate colour!
Not bad.
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Mostly Motley 
It’s strange not seeing many of the reds and oranges this year isn’t it but as you say there is a different kind of beauty – a more subtle sort to be found if we but look carefully.
I have deep respect for Mother Nature, she obviously has ways of ensuring we don’t take her for granted 🙂
Lovely pics. Your rosehip one makes me want to get embroidering. I like the fireworks simile – they really were!
Thank you – I’ve been watching those hips for weeks, but something about them yesterday just looked so energetic.
I had notice the lack of those vibrant reds all the way up to Scotland but the berries and hips are prolific this year. I should be out gathering Rose Hips to make syrup but as usual too short of time at the moment. Gorgeous photos – I could almost reach in and gather up those leaves!
Rose-hip syrup – that takes me back. I remember people trying to squeeze them down people’s backs at school – aren’t they supposed to make you itch – or is that something else?
Not sure on that one we collected them and boiled them and they make a fine syrup.
PS I am told if you itch it means you are coming into money!
I was photographing hips at the weekend, but they weren’t as prolific as yours, Anny. I’m glad you’re finding colour at last. We too are getting gold and bronze now, but very little red.
I must admit to wishing I had a proper camera for things like the hips, my little phone struggles a bit, but they were so exuberant I had to try and snap them. Oddly enough, since we started having so much rain, the general intensity of autumn colour has increased – but still not much red.
Gorgeous!
Yes, we must loooook. For so many things. Like Seasonal Beauty… And magic… And whimsey… 🙂
Thank you for sharing the beauty, which you discovered.
Tessa~
Yes, you’re right, nature is fabulous – too easy to take it for granted.
I love those mushrooms – they look like sweets!
Lovely photos, love the mushrooms or are they toadstools, either way they are very pretty 🙂
I have found three in my mushroom book which look similar – 2 are poisonous, one edible – I’m not playing those odds! Happy to enjoy the colour in a photo.
Not bad at all. We hadn’t seen much autumn colour either, though it finally started to come through last week. Just in time for the leaves to be frozen off the trees if the weather forecasters are to be believed
It’s more like fifty shades of dripping drab here today, but the weather makes such a difference, who knows what tomorrow might be like.