oloriel | Winter has come... (Reply)

Well, not really. But we've had several frosty nights already (although the trees and plants in general still aren't into this whole 'autumn' thing and try to act like it's still August) as a kindly reminder to, like, stock up on de-froster and put on winter tyres and such. Yesterday, the frost was followed by beautiful sunshine, so of course I had to go out and take lots of pictures of frozen stuff.
And then I remembered that I had also taken lots of pictures on our hike to Altenberg in late September, and never shared those with you (oh, you poor derived people!).

I will correct this negligence... now.

Brace for picspam.

Clicking on the thumbnails will lead to somewhat larger pics, you know the drill.

Here we go!

September 26th


'náro is a wild tiger (secretly)	Two roads diverged in a, um, green wood	Lurking lamb	Impromptu bridge

A secret valley	Still waters run... murky	Weird shadow effect	Yet more woods & waters

Misunderstood forest icon #1	Weird focus	More mushrooms	Creepy roots

The road goes ever on...	Ripple marks from the carboniferous age	Let's pretend the lack of focus is intentional	Still following the river

The cathedral at Altenberg	It's only a model!	Oh, right. It was also a indecisive weather sort of day.	So we got lots of rainbows.

Rainbow with heron	End of rainbow. 'Pot of gold' is obviously just a poetic way of saying 'money pit'...

October 25th/26th


Hermine, Humbert and... heron	Sometimes when I'm really frustrated with my hermit-like state, I just have to take a ~~breath~~ camera and remind myself how beautiful this place is.	The poor walnut tree didn't like the frost and shed leaves like crazy.	Default valley view

Sorry apple trees	The sheep that confuse people	Apparently they like walnut leaves	Leaves of gold

Default path view	Leaves on ice	Frozen blackberry	Here follow lots of frozen flowers

Told you so!	Okay, fruits and flowers.	Roooooosebuuuuud	Keeled over

You can't see anything really, but I like it	Yet more frozen flowers	Weirdo sunflower*, defrosting	Blades of ice

The new walnut-leaf powered eco-car! (See what I meant about the leaf-shedding? Also, guess who got to clean the road?)	Cannibal pumpkin >:D

Still with me? Well, we're done! Huzzah!

Today, of course, it's rainy and nasty. Bah.

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*Why is this a weirdo sunflower? Let me count the ways. First, that big flower you see there? Opened in the NIGHT. Admittedly there was a very bright full moon that night, but come on. SUNflower. Second, my sunflowers always put that old „sunflowers turn with the sun“ truism to lie. My sunflowers look all over the place, no matter where the sun currently is, and never turn. (They've got CHARACTER!)