Catching falling leaves
We don't seem to have proper weekends any more as it is the time when we are most hard pressed to find volunteers, so our weekends have be constrained to the week instead. When we awoke to a foggy morning our plans to continue our Jurassic Coast walk were put on hold, and we headed inland instead to Hooke Wood.
I belatedly discovered this wood in the bluebell season in May and have visited several times since.
It is a very special wood as not only does the site of a forest here date back to the Iron Age 3,000 BC but it is today a living and working laboratory as it is the home of the Architecture Association Woodland site, where experiments are carried out on producing experimental rural timber constructions see here.
There is some public access through the site although I have never come across the buildings on any of my walks. The beech trees date 1950's -1970's they look and feel different as the majority of their lower branches are removed to create long straight trunks. It felt quite magical to walk through these trees in the fog with a minimal breeze and watch individual leaves fall to the ground. It was almost an impossible task to capture on film!
Following our walk we headed to the nearby town of Beaminster for a coffee in our favourite dog friendly cafe -The Trading Post and Cafe. The small town has been badly affected since a stolen tractor was used to ram raid an ATM cash machine back in August destroying part of a building which resulted in restricted road access to the town and a huge reduction in customers. It is therefore even more important to visit the town and give them our support.
Until next time!
Sarah x
Such beauty Sarah. I find leaves of gold with red, green and orange on them and think each leaf is the most beautiful. They end up tucked into books. Donna@gather
ReplyDeleteIt’s good that you are retired and can make the most of the week days. We too spent time ambling through woods this week. Hasn’t the leaf colour been glorious. Those beech trees are wonderful. Enjoy your week to come. B x
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you caught the last of the colour. The leaves are mostly down here but walking through woodland is a pleasure at any time of the year. It looks wonderful in the mist!
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful! I really enjoyed your little video too :) I clicked on the Hooke Park link and I'll be going back to look more closely at that. Best, Jane :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about that incident of the ram raid on an ATM machine. It is hard to imagine something like that happening in a place like Beaminster.
ReplyDeleteEven though it was a foggy morning there is something rather mystical about your woodland photos.
What a lovely walk and an interesting wood too :)
ReplyDeleteOh Sarah, it truly was a fantastic fall, but did it ever fall fast! We are over here just days away from our Thanksgiving holiday and it just doesn't seem as if it's time yet. This year will be over before we know it, but the colorful memories of fall will be with us for a long time. Gorgeous photos!
ReplyDeleteI love the photos with the foggy mist, Sarah! Mysterious!
ReplyDeleteYour photos of your misty walk are very evocative ... I always think foggy days are twice as cold as other winter days... But lovely that you have a nice dog friendly coffee shop at the end of the walk.
ReplyDeleteWe love to walk through woodlands especially in the autumn. I always collected leaves with the grandchildren to press and make leaf pictures. I find myself still doing it even though they are not interested anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe ATM in our village was put into the old red phone box and somone took the whole machine - left the phone box! Such beautiful pictures - the woodlands are gorgeous at the moment.
ReplyDeleteLindas imagens. Cumprimentos.
ReplyDeleteIron Age forest sounds fascinating.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! Love the colours in the picture :) Thanks for your sweet comment and my husband got a job down in Sweden, thats why we moved from the island - but now we are back again! HAPPY :)
ReplyDeleteLove from Titti