A Glasgow Autumn.

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As autumn is in full swing at the moment across the UK I thought I'd do an autumnal collection to celebrate my 400th post on this blog. It's always better if you can get autumn colours damp for a photograph as they stand out more. October is perfect for this as cold mornings at this time of year often produce mist inversions over the city. Glasgow sits in a flat bowl surrounded by hill ranges so it tends to attract this phenomenon, as do other parts of the world with a similar geological set up and the right mix of temperatures colliding. Add in a few dozen drumlins which sometimes stick out the mist blanket, or tower blocks on slopes poking above into bright sunshine, and you have a perfect combination for natural magic happening.

Power lines descending into the city below from the higher surrounding hills to the north. I stopped off at a local supermarket to buy a quick breakfast, some tasty treats for a friend afterwards, and bumped into someone with a very expensive camera around his neck bemoaning the fact that "there was nothing worth photographing in this murk all weekend and that he might as well go home and take the kids to the pictures."
As I'm all for father's spending quality time with their children on Sunday's I didn't make the competition any the wiser. Besides, I don't want my favourite locations getting too popular. Luckily, my blog is mainly visited by Americans and Russians these days, judging by the stats info, so any obscure tiny lay-bys I favour remain empty.

According to the weather forecast the thick mist would burn off by lunchtime over the city so I hung around the high land just above the mist level before dropping down slowly as it lifted. Cattle grazing in fields above Milngavie.

A silver kingdom awaited with spider webs illuminated by the rising sun plainly visible like never before, covered in early morning dew.

Autumn seen through a spider web wonderland of hanging droplets. Each a tiny looking glass.

Spider craft at work.

A misty view over Bearsden. Towers and Ravens.

A grey Squizzell. Companion to the Jabberwocky. Well...It was a Lewis Carroll and Alice sort of day.

By lunchtime, as the BBC Met office witches and warlocks had predicted, with their weather science, spells and charts, it was a beautiful day and the autumn colours now sparked like dew dipped diamonds in the sunshine. A perfect time for colour capture. The mist in the valleys had either dissipated or climbed upwards to the higher slopes.

So it was down to the parks for me to get some photos before the leaves dried out. Like wet pebbles collected on a beach they are never as vivid once they dry out, brought back home, then placed on a shelf or even in a water filled jar. True magic is like that sometimes. Setting is everything.

Clydebank with the mist rising over the Kilpatrick Hills.

Autumn glory and time for tea with my Alice. Appropriately, maple syrup and pecan nut pastries in this instance. Three each. With Savage Peculiar indeed.

View over The Wood of Knights.

The Golden Highway into Glasgow.

Mushrooms for tea... or maybe not. Well... I see enough strange creatures wandering this realm in daylight already.

The Hill. Wood of Knights. Glasgow in Autumn.

Kate and Miranda R with some more witch craft from the early 1990s.