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Autumn Walk - Series 2 (Traditions associated with Autumn/ Harvest)

Dec 1, 2008
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Photograph:Anthony J Hughes

Winter Berries

Traditions associated with Autumn/ Harvest

Autumn has always been known in folklore as a magical time. The rowan tree’s vibrant display of berries in autumn contributed to a belief in protective abilities against spirits as suggested in the old rhyme: "Rowan tree and red thread / make the witches tine (meaning 'to lose') their speed". Pieces of the tree were carried for personal protection from witchcraft and sprigs or pieces of rowan were used to protect cows and dairy produce from enchantment. When showing autumn colour, the power of rowan trees was though to be greatly enhanced.

Legend says that by October the Devil has spat on blackberries, making them inedible. However, with bramble still flowering and new berries still coming there may be opportunities to enjoy the blackberries that the Devil missed!

Autumn Walk - Series 1

Nov 24, 2008
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Autumn Walk (Tree bark1)

Photograph:Anthony J Hughes

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.

- William Blake, 1799, The Letters

Autumn Walk - Series 1

Nov 24, 2008
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Autumn View10

Photograph:Anthony J Hughes

Nothing Gold Can Stay



Robert Frost (1923)

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.