Autumn Fields

Autumn fields........

Road to the beach ........

Wild flowers on the shore .......

Today the sea has an ethereal quality.
I'm reminded of Edward Lear's poem about the owl and the pussy-cat,and imagine
them sailing off over the horizon to far away lands .......

The Owl and the Pussy-cat

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
 In a beautiful pea-green boat:
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note

                                                              More ........

Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) was an English artist, and writer of humerous nonsense poems.
First published in 1871, "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" has become one
of our best known children's stories.

Pastoral scene painted by Lear during travels in the Balkans.

Morelle Smith has written an interesting post about him   -  HERE

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Image 12  -  source  -  Wikigallery

Country Roads

Fairytale illustration  -  circa 1900

"Lucky Hans"  exchanges a heavy package for a horse

Perthshire countryside in late September

19th century farmhouse 

Hundred year old beech hedges line the roadside

This gardener's cottage, complete with weather vane, dates from mid 1800s

Concealed behind the bushes is a beautiful garden producing
flowers, vegetables and fruit

Fox's eye view through a gap in the hedge

Popular spot to watch wild Atlantic salmon leaping, as they fight their way upstream
towards their spawning grounds in a glen a few miles away

Protected from the elements, in a medieval church   -   Pictish stone dating from around 800 AD

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