#359 - Blackthorn blossom clusters

The blackthorns are full of spindly flowers, a frothy profusion along the sloe hedge. There is a path which leads between the hill and the hedgerow and this time of year I can't see it without thinking of Anne of Green Gables and her 'White Way of Delight'.

#64 - Blackthorn

Out of the city today, visiting friends. Our sloes have all been eaten but just a few miles away the hedges are still blue with them. The leaves are being whirled away by the Autumn winds and in some places the twigs are covered in delicate fronds of silver and gold lichen.

#43 - Sloes

I love the colour of these sloes, of all the beautiful Autumn fruits in the hedgerows at the moment these are my favourite. And it's really hard to take a good photo of them, so this, my fifth attempt at a composition which can even hint at their gorgeousness, is just a very simple one, with the red sycamore leaf behind the blue-purple berries.