Epsom fall

We went to Canada, inter alia, to see the fall of the leaves. Which, with the bright sunlight we had for most of the time, was quite something.

But we do do fall back here in Epsom, as this shot from an upstairs bedroom window shows. No bright sunlight and the picture was taken from behind a window, but not too bad nevertheless.

The small yellow tree, about to fall, middle left, is a hazel nut tree. A hazel nut tree from which we rarely get any hazels because the grey squirrels strip the immature nuts, with the result that neither they nor we ever get any. One would not mind quite so much if they got anything out of it - and to think that these dim animals have displaced the native red. There is talk in TB of catapults, with the sort of thing you can get from Amazon being well up to the job.

Not sure about the bare tree, upper middle right, probably actually two trees, maybe one ash and one willow. Somewhere in there there is a small walnut tree, probably hidden in this shot. No idea if the owners get any walnuts off it.

The three larger trees in the middle are from left to right, oak, oak and willow. Odd how the older oak to the left is so much darker than the rather younger oak in the middle. The bare tree between the two oaks is an ash - a tree which grows fast but which is last to come into leaf and first to fall, so the shortest growing season by a month or so. Nature moves in mysterious ways.

The copper leaves between the nut and the middle oak are the mainly obscured copper beeches.

The three ponds, the subject of various posts in the past, largely hidden between the washing line and the middle oak. See reference 1 - a time when I was still learning about how to post pictures.

Reference 1: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Pond+life+(spot+the+newt).