Having been away from the office for two weeks, on arriving this morning I was delighted to see this beautiful show of autumn colours. This tree has given me enormous pleasure over many years and it is looking fantastic just now.
All those leaves may have turned yellow or blown off by Monday so I'm grateful to Grahame Madge from our Press team for this photograph. I'll look at it during the winter months and remember this fleeting but deep beauty.
And how would you put a financial value on this beauty? It can't be done.
Yes Mark what you say is perfectly true but strange as it may seem to people of normal eyesight I don't get much benefit from such things as I am colour blind but Sweep tends to tell me about such things so I never feel that I miss out on much and I always think that usually we are compensated with other gifts if you are missing out on something.The thing I find annoying is that nobody does any little thing to help colour blind people and there are quite a lot but if it is a minority ethnic group or gay everything possible is done.An example is the phone where I work part time if it is for our department it flashes red they tell me,other department flashes green,to colour blind people looks exactly the same and all it would need is say one of them to be red and one blue,seems so simple.
Absolutely stunning and as you say, priceless!
That's lovely - what a shame, as you say, that all those beautiful leaves will be on the ground soon.
I'm with you there, Mark! And maybe its fleeting beauty help us appreciate it all the more; if it was there all the time we'd not really see it. An Amelanchia in the garden is just reaching 'perfection' and I spend ages just looking at it! Really lifts the spirit! Much more relaxing than any pills! (And beats dusting!)
It's such a shame that so many people just walk past autumn beauty (and other natural beauty) without seeing it for what it is. Perhaps it should be on the National Curriculum - 'How to Appreciate Beauty-FOR FREE' !!!
But as Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice "all that glisters is not gold".
Is the tree native and does it have much wildlife value?
Barry - non-native I think, but liked by bramblings and there was a green woodpecker in it on Friday!
Taffy2 - I'll see how good it's looking tomorrow, but these autumn colours are indeed fleeting and must be enjoyed to the full while we can. Carpe diem!
Sooty - interesting point about autumn colours and colour-blindness - I'm sorry i had never thought of that.
Jane, Debby - priceless and fleeting!
Every season has its own magic moments and I have to agree that this is one of them.
Nature in all its glory.
Priceless! Enjoy!
Gill - indeed! I won't see that tree back at The Lodge until Thursday - I'll let you know how it's looking then!