Summer's End
We've passed through Samhain, and a melancholy spreads across the land. Persephone has entered the underworld, and nature prepares for her sleep.
The last hawthorn berries remain on this lichen covered branch...
All withers and turns to a thousand shades of brown...
These blackberries are long past their best...
Blackberry leaves change to red, then brown before falling back to the earth.
As the leaves dry out they curl up and go to sleep.
Fungi start to sprout from the fallen leaves.
Moss starts to grow round an old tree stump.
A toadstool pushes up through the fallen oak leaves...
Ferns, once a deep green, now fade and turn to brown.
And that which withers then bows its head and weeps.
Once vigorous spiralling growth now takes a rest.