An Autumn Gallery. October 2023. The Golden Highway.

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An old fence post covered in thick moss. Maybe even one harbouring a lost world of minuscule creatures, happily breeding and hidden away for decades, on this completely isolated vertical sided but extremely lush mini mountain summit. After 40 years of taking autumn photographs I know all the best places to find good autumn colours so this is a gallery celebration of the dramatic third act of the seasons. The very essence of autumn. 'The Fall'. A good photo should make you want to step right through into the picture and experience it as if you were there in person. So hopefully this selection will achieve that.

 

I don't need to travel far to find the best areas either. Great Western Road between Drumchapel and Anniesland is as good as any park for autumn colours in trees although I have done recent walks around Knightswood Park, Clydebank Park, and  Rouken Glen Park to broaden the art gallery theme still further.

 

A golden harvest for wildlife with colourful wild berry and fruit trees lining both sides and the middle strip of this golden highway. Yet I have personally seen very few birds here eating them. They are enchanted.

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This is Glasgow's version of the Yellow Brick Road and the Emerald Kingdom beyond.

 Strange things do occur here occasionally.

 A cold autumn morning on the golf course beside Rouken Glen Park. What I thought was a stray golf ball at first glance from a distance was not.

 

Bus Stop in autumn 2023.

 

I also pick good light to bring up the colours more. Late afternoon sunlight here.

And some views are just magical. Another realm entirely....... that you can step into.

 

If you are lucky with the weather autumn colours can last from early September to mid November which certainly helps to make the bleak winter months of cold darkness pass quicker before Spring eventually appears again.

 

A dipper enjoying a very clear stream flowing through Rouken Glen park.

 

Autumn park lands are plentiful in the western suburbs of the city.

 

All the colours, sights and smells of a productive October forest floor. Any goodness used up, stored away safety, then turned into a wide range of mirco materials that all growing things desire come spring... easily as efficient as any human food factory turning out products for sale to their customers. The invisible world wide web of tiny mycelium threads that you never normally see without digging them up but without which most things above ground would perish. The original food delivery service perfected over millions of years of evolution.

 

 Great Western Road. Still quiet and serene outside rush hour times.

 Coat of several colours.

Amanita Muscaria.

Autumn foliage. High Knightswood.

 Deer. Shy creatures of the forest edge near The Barrhead Dams.

 

Evening sunlight walking along Great Western Road.

 

The stream in the gorge at Rouken Glen Park.

 

The riches of autumn.

 

The sheer beauty of Glasgow's many parks.

 

 

Pastel Perfection. Misty morning with weak sunlight burning through November's dark mists.

 

Wind blown leaves swirling in a tight circle create an overnight random archipelago on the pavement outside. or ...hinting at a sinkhole effect.

 

...and the pleasures of the open road ahead.