Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness....

I think that is how the the famous John Keats poem on Autumn begins... I blogged a week ago that I thought that was the last weekend of autumn as the gales that we forecast would strip the trees of their beautiful colours. Well that was about right, but today we had the autumnal mists. It was perfectly still around Caerwys this morning as Mary and I did the circular walk from Caerwys to Ysceifiog. It was the kind of late autumn day when I don't think any evaporation takes place. Anyway on the Station Woods path I took this photograph. If you look very carefully you can just about spot the mast on Moel y Parc.

Last weekend of autumnal colour.

Who needs to go to New England in the fall? Is it just me or has this been one of the best autumns ever. The weather has been relatively kind - certainly not very cold. Perhaps as a result the colours in this part of Wales have been magnificent. However the forecast for the next few days is for some stormy weather, so I think this might be the last weekend when the leaves are on the trees (at least until next spring anyway!). So yesterday Mary and I went out with my camera and took some photographs of the trees around Caerwys. Here are two of them:

Looking south west towards the Vale of Clwyd.

View towards Afonwen and the slopes of Moel y Parc.