Fall in Cumbria
Autumn this year has stretched on.
Golden leaves.
Red leaves.
Yellow leaves.
Draped over lanes
Reflected in tarns and stretched over hillsides.
Enthusiasm making me randomly pull over.
Camera clicking in places I’d seen a hundred times before.
Only this time the colour, the cloud, was, maybe, different.
Higher hills don’t lose their grandeur.
Not to be outshone.
Trees left down, but scurrilous tick hiding bracken gives over its green,
changing colours to match the lower land.
Even grass turned its coat
Grey walls looked clean and washed. Cloud, far from diminishing the view, rolls over white and adds just a little drama on a dull day, in Glenridding.
Throw the sunshine over Blencathra and Vermont or Hokkaido have met their match.