A TOTALLY FACTUAL WALK IN THE PARK! - HOORAH!

Beautiful, Ellpus! So calm & restful!
No wonder your so serene, living in an environment like this! :wink:

*Running to Bhagat ram's to buy two boxes of his deliiicious samosas*.....

Remember the Weeping Willow from page 2?.......

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This was one of my favourite trees in the park, and had been there for donkey's years. Look at it now...after freak high winds.

So sad!





WILLOW.

Time, like water, rushes by
the willow, as it weeps
for those who entrusted
to it their carved love
and then, their youthful declarations but a memory,
return alone to remember how it once was.......

(a poem by me....today)

That's really sad, Ellpus...

I once won a tree in a writing competition when I was 10/11. It's planted in a park in Chorlton (Beech Road).

Shame to see a tree go - but at least it went naturally...

It was the trees 'time' Ellpus

I know, I know.....but it just caused a flow of poetic inspiration to run through me for a while, resulting in several tender, touching poems.


Here is my second one............






That tree I will always remember
For my very first stand up knee trembler
'Twas with Mavis Bloomberry
Who'd first lost her cherry
To a sailor one night in September

Here's an Ode to your tree, Ellpus:

Oh, you big tree that has fell down
Giving my Lord a massive frown
Let me count your rings and know your age
And how many people, on your bark did gaze

But now it's all over...

For you did fall over...

Thank you

x

That's lovely, Sarah.

I'll now post a picture of my funghi, in honour of your prose.


This was just a short walk from the now defunct Willow......


Yes....it's that time of year again....

Sorry to see your willow so broken up!

You don't sound real sincere, littlek. I bet you are secretly laughing at the Lord's misfortune.

Did my first poem put you in touch with your feminine side, Gus?

Did you shed a tear?

............. and now.....<sob>....this is all that's left.

Went for a walk yesterday morning, and it had that Autumnal feeling about it for the first time this year, cool and misty.
There was the distinctive smell of a coal fire as I approached the Grand Union Canal, which took me back to childhood when the only heating in the entire house, was a coal fire in the living room.

The smoke was coming from the seven or eight narrowboats, moored up for the night alongside the woods... although there was one making an early start. I know the man who uses that boat, as he often moors here and spends a week or so away from the inner City, where he has a permanent mooring space in "Little Venice".

...walking on up into the woods, another sign of Autumn were the amount of cobwebs, made visible by the heavy dew.........

...and I'll post this one, as this tree will gradually go through several different shades, before finally ending up a glorious deep scarlet.

I'm pretty sure it's a willow (not the weeping variety)....I'll look it up.

In the meantime, I'll post the odd pic of it here from time to time, as it goes through the changes.

(Enjoying the pics!)

Sometimes I forget how beautiful my country is
Thanks for this colection Lord E
You know, for reminding me


BTW I liked this:


WILLOW


Time, like water, rushes by
the willow, as it weeps
for those who entrusted
to it their carved love
and then, their youthful declarations but a memory,
return alone to remember how it once was.......

Lord Ellpus

That, coming from you Endy, is praise indeed.

You think that's a willow, eh...? Next time you pass it with your camera, can you snap a shot of it's leaves close up?

No problem, lk.

It's the only one I've seen around here, and if there WERE any others, I would've certainly noticed them, as this one is quite spectacular during autumn.

If it's not too soggy over there, I'll take a shot today.

Thank you Lord E for the wonderful pictures.

1. I have always wanted to go on leisurely trips through England in one of those canal boats. Knowing I never will is really sad.

2. I have a theory that fairies seen waving their magic wands were in fact helping the spiders by twirling sticks around the grass, trees and bushes to clean up the old webs.

3. There is a tree, I have come across two of them, that go completely red over a period of months and end up with red stalks, red leaves and red seed-pods. It doesn't happen every year, but is spectacular when it does happen. Is this what your tree does?