Well you turn your back for a few moments and another season creeps up on you before you know it. If you take a walk around the boardwalk at Flanders the signs of autumn are there to see. The obvious ones are the brightly coloured toadstools that daily change their appearances and magically their locations. The first few brightly coloured leaves that are starting to float down, mainly from the birch which is never hesitant to shed its leaves, the sphagnum, freshly hydrated by the torrential rains of earlier in the week are as bright as they can be and the bog cotton is just starting to take on to turn to red looking like flames licking the each of the pools. But it is also in the smell of the place. Take a sniff and you will get that cool fragrant damp tang that says to me compost and heather. And a squint will show you that the light takes on a very different intensity as the sun doesn't reach as far in the sky and the moisture is the air softens the rays and your shadows change shape with the season. Enjoy.
