Autumn Colours.

[Primrose]

Have just returned from a lovely walk in our local beech woods. The colours are wonderful (still) and although there are still plenty of leaves on the tree there is a very thick covering of leaves everywhere on the ground. I just love that childish feeling of walking through all the rustling leaves kicking them about in my Wellies. What I would have given to have been able to scroop up a huge amount of them to store them and rot them down for a soil conditioner, although I suspect that beech leaves en masse are probably rather too acid on their own. In any case, the woodlands are a SSI and there are always lots of wardens around this time of year looking for all the illicit mushroom pickers.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Primrose, don't get me started on that lovely childish feeling walking through leaves, and Beech ones at that, the best for rustling.