October Morning - A Photographic Walk

Today was a beautiful October morning, the sort that makes you glad to be alive and grateful to live in such a beautiful town and so I picked up my camera to begin a quiet, peaceful Sunday morning walk reminding myself of the beauty of nature.

All around the town has begun to take on the colours of autumn. A rich vibrancy greats you at each turn as nature compensates for the cooler days and darker evenings.

All around blankets of rusts and gold were being woven into pathways as I walked by.

The quietness of Sunday morning was broken by the sound of an engine and I looked up to see a small plane gleaming white against the clear, blue skies. Perhaps one day I will learn to fly. Who knows?

All around Little Crosby village are recently harvested fields, still looking fine with their brown stubble, preparing to delight next year with golden wheat and the sunshine yellow of the rapeseed crops.

The horses in the fields of Crosby Hall had donned their winter coats but still looked happy in the warm October sunshine.

Overhead geese were flying away to warmer climes, whilst others were flying here from countries colder than ours, calling out instructions as they flew. A wonderful sight and a fine sound.

While, down below, the trees prepared to spread and increase, scattering acorns, horse chestnut and sycamore seeds.

I passed St Mary's and in my head I could hear the harvest songs of childhood and I filled with the contentment felt as a child playing in the fields in the last beautiful days autumn had to offer.

I passed by my favourite house in the whole village. The one I always say that I will live in one day.

Up in the skies were summer clouds, defying autumn and calling out "See we will not leave and let the rain clouds take the days"

The fruits of late summer and early autumn were still clinging on to add to the palette of colour all around and at that moment I felt so happy and contented to be a part of it.

Then a lady passed me walking her dog. She was complaining vociferously down her mobile phone about somebody and was totally unaware of the beauty all around. It made me think how much we ignore around us these days because we have let technology control our lives, instead of using it positively.

Will you promise me that you will take the chance to take a walk and that you will look around you and appreciate the world, like you did as a child? The scents, sounds and beauty are still there. If you look for them.