The leaves are now changing rapidly and it promises to be a fine autumn for colour.
The woods have a misty quality and are rich with the earthy smells of decaying vegetation and fungi.
The picture above shows a hornbeam colouring up behind a coup of sweet chestnut coppice with oak standards in Coneyburrow Wood on the eastern side of Brede High.
Above are some hornbeam leaves in closer view and below the smoky reds and purples of a wild cherry (Prunus avium) on the edge of Twist Wood near Goatham Green.
