Arboreal heaven. Autumn tones near Plodda Falls, Glen Affric, Inverness-shire, Scotland.
Poem.
Like a military parade of trees,
Commercial Spruce, in bottle-green uniform,
stand to attention on the lower slopes, mile upon mile.
Golden Larch, like Red-Hot Pokers,
frame plantations in spectacular contrast,
acting as expendable fire-breaks in order to sustain the bulk of the forest.
Delicate fronds of the Silver Birch droop and waiver in the breeze.
Lower branches speckled by what seems countless golden doubloons “sparkle” with an iridescent glow.
Millions of leaves metamorphose into their Autumnal apparel.
The deeper, richer bronze of the bracken adds to this awesome, multi-coloured tapestry, but Broom and Gorse hang on to their now, flowerless, green foliage.
Blacks and greys of leafless bushes and the scaffolding of straight, deeply grooved pine-tree-trunks, gives an architectural solidity to the scene.
The richness of colour and texture is momentous, mesmeric and moving.
It is a joy to behold.
Arboreal heaven. Autumn tones near Plodda Falls, Glen Affric, Inverness-shire, Scotland.
Poem.
Like a military parade of trees,
Commercial Spruce, in bottle-green uniform,
stand to attention on the lower slopes, mile upon mile.
Golden Larch, like Red-Hot Pokers,
frame plantations in spectacular contrast,
acting as expendable fire-breaks in order to sustain the bulk of the forest.
Delicate fronds of the Silver Birch droop and waiver in the breeze.
Lower branches speckled by what seems countless golden doubloons “sparkle” with an iridescent glow.
Millions of leaves metamorphose into their Autumnal apparel.
The deeper, richer bronze of the bracken adds to this awesome, multi-coloured tapestry, but Broom and Gorse hang on to their now, flowerless, green foliage.
Blacks and greys of leafless bushes and the scaffolding of straight, deeply grooved pine-tree-trunks, gives an architectural solidity to the scene.
The richness of colour and texture is momentous, mesmeric and moving.
It is a joy to behold.