Our Autumn Diary continues with another page of pictures. Ferns are in abundance.
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38 Stray rays of sun poke through the canopy ...
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39 ... and pick out single objects
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41 Look! My first blotches!
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42 Nettles are still abundant, waiting to sting little guys
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44 This is the time of the year when ferns show the most beautiful golds and oranges
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45 The sun peeks through the trees, backlighting an oak leaf
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46 Chestnuts, but too soon to be roasting on an open fire
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48 Ferns at this time of the year are possibly the most colourful things to be seen
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51 Every colour of the red end of the rainbow plus a very edible looking blackberry
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52 A dry summer means that acorns are in short supply this year. Instead there's some knobbly thing
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53 New pine cones start to appear
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55 Just a baby, but going brown nevertheless
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58 A fern, still green, and looking beautiful backlit
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60 A dead leaf captured in a cobweb on a sign showing where the footpath goes
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61 Purples, greens and golds in a meadow of ferns and heather
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63 Toadstools will soon be everywhere. This group were well hidden
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