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Autumn - in Ince

There's still time (just) to enter this year's Greenheart photographic calendar competition:

"with nature pictures of the local area, using inspiration from the poems in the Words Festival - *poems*.

“Send us your high quality photos of nature. Flowers, wildlife, birds or countryside scenes from local areas ... The best will be used to promote our countryside next year.”

Email jpegs (under 1 megabyte file size) to:

greenheartcalendar@wigan.gov.uk before 30th September

with your name and the shot's location (two entries max per person).

If your image is chosen, we'll ask you for a higher resolution version and send you two copies of the Greenheart 2013 calendar.'

(Borough Life Summer 2012 p12)


Has anyone got any Autumn photos of local places to share here on Wiganworld?

Those photos look familiar

They're mine Mache. You don't think I've taken them?!

The location

I know. It's quite a pleasant place to walk in Ince.

I thought you had an Autumn photo to share with WW then, Dostaf.

Does this help you, Mache?

Here's a close up:

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Autumn photo's?

Get some conkers on.

No horse chestnut trees where I took those, Dostaf.

They reckon the leaves are maintaining their colour due to sugar.

If so why are the tops dying back on sugarbeet

Could trees be at the root of the problem, Mache? I hadn't heard the explanation about sugar, Dostaf.

Warm weather, natural sugars 16:58

At least your clock works

I meant wet weather

The -ose, you know. (I'm guessing!)

I shall now pretend to be a Koala bear: all drunk and smelly.

two of you then

DNE!

Dostaf - 17:00 - I've just read your link:

"Wet weather earlier in the summer prompted trees to produce a large volume of leaves which they have retained, rather than starting to shed them early, as they would do in a dry year.

And the recent warm sunny days have increased sugar levels in the trees, which will boost autumn colours." (12th Sept)

See. It's not all drivel.

Fall drivel?

Don't get me started.

I think there's a comment somewhere about 'fall colors'

Autompne!

Fall is a bit old fashioned.

"The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear ... However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".
During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America."

so after fall is it winter or fell

'Colors' is still wrong

(Stamps foot petulantly)

We won't fall for that!

Colors is not wrong in the Great Smoky Mountains.

'Why are fall colors so remarkable in the Smokies? One reason is the park's amazing diversity of trees. Some 100 species of native trees live in the Smokies and the vast majority of these are deciduous.

How do colors change? As summer ends, the green pigments in leaves deteriorate, giving other colors a chance to shine. Carotenoids, the pigment that makes carrots orange and leaves yellow, are exposed as the green fades. Reds and purples come from anthocyanins, a pigment that is formed when sugars in leaves break down in bright autumn sunlight.'

Now sort the one out about pigs and acorns.

An clue

'it's a close call between hog and pig, but acorns trump truffles'

Pannage.

Pannage 4. acorns ... etc., on which pigs feed

That could explain vanishing oak tables.

There was a bloke on the tellybox gathering hazel nuts the other week.

Now, as I like hazel nuts, I thought I'd watch it. In the hope of knowing knowledge and picking my own.

What a palaver! Took ages to get a few handfuls of piddly little ones. (No doubt normal for UK)

Daft bugger ended up making a brew out of them. Of course, he sad it was delicious.

I'll stick to Tescasdas.

"Good!"

(I actually thought 'That could explain vanishing oak tables. was worth more than a , but I won't fall out about it.)

It was realy.

But DNE came to mind. After all, we don't want this one varnished.

Typing of which, I think conkers have a beatiful woody look.

I concur.

Almost grainy

I wood knot polish them off though - I once tried roasting chestnuts without gathering knowledge from a bloke on the telly box first.

Aye.

Duck and cover happened chez Dostaf.

(Open fire at the time)

Heating, not military order.

The squirrels have nothing to fear from me, either.

Same with chestnuts. Easier to get them from Tescasdas. Leave the wild stuff to the woodland creatures.

Have I mentioned the horse chestnut leaf doings before?

Snap the stalk from the leaf, and you see what looks like a hoof complete with nails on shoe, as the 'veins'? discolour into dark dots.

Doh, not from leaf. From stalk.

Pic of stalk you can also see similar on the broken off leaf stem.

From here

In't google great?

Have I mentioned the horse chestnut leaf doings before?

I don't think so - Is it farrier of you to be snapping the stalk from the leaf?

In a week or so, If not sooner, they'll be falling off like anything, Jo Anne.

The leaves come down with several still attached to a stalk, rather than individually.


Unless that's because of kids (and adults) lobbing sticks into the branches.

The pic of the stem ^^^ doesn't quite do justice really. The 'hoof' appears a bit flat.

You can't exatly see a frog, but there is more shape than the image portrays.


URGENT EDIT

DNE

Before he starts.

I was going to type, thinking of horse chestnuts, we won't harry you, but WW awaits some good shots.

Thin ice, Jo Anne

I like autumn.

(Sorry, this had me in stitches. 24th Sep 2012 at 02:19)

I like all the seasons.

I thought it rather apt.

Like a caption comp in reverse.

I couldn't find this link earlier:

Greenheart Calendar Competition 2013

(It was apt.
But, having read Veg Grower's description, I'm glad I didn't see the 'meteorite'. If I'd have seen it and thought it was burning aircraft, I'd have been distressed.)