Ailsa is looking for intensity this week so what about this apple orchard inside the walled garden at Berrington Hall? There was a lot of vibrant colour there this week: the fiery reds and sulphuric yellows were in competition.
I’m delighted to see so much colour around at this time of year. I shall soak it in to get me through the grey days of the coming winter.
Jude I just read a post from WP and the fact that they invited the WP community to join your bench challenge! Congratulations that is so cool!!
Very cool! (But how funny that they called Jude “he” on the original post. Research, people, research is always useful.)
I was very pleasantly surprised, except for the sex change, bit of a worry that one ๐
Well everyday is full of surprises. Likely no consolation but I thought you were a he for the first while too. ๐
At any rate a very big congrats!
Haha… well I suppose Jude is a male name so an easy mistake, just that mine is a diminutive of Judith (never Judy).
So many of my Northern blogging friends are posting about Autumn and I love it! It’s my favourite season so I get to enjoy it twice in one year in a way. ๐
An orchard full of fruit is a splendid sight Jude, and inside an old walled garden, wow.
First time I have been here and seen it so beautiful – more of the garden tomorrow. It was full of colour. I was happily impressed.
So gorgeous, I do so love your photos Jude. I think we are in for a beautiful autumn this year with the colours already so lovely. Strange weather though isn’t it? I would love that apple tree in my garden ๐ Have a lovely weekend ๐ xx
I’d love a garden! And maybe a small crab apple for the blossom and fruit for the birds.
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I wish you a nice weekend
Many thanks Marko, you too ๐
More of autumn, I can’t get enough of it while it lasts in your part of the world. You may get an influx of benches this week Jude…
I have had a lot of benches this week from my regulars! Seems this theme is very popular ๐
You have found a niche, seems so many people include benches in photos.
That’s true! Yet personally I avoid capturing people on benches most of the time. Sculptures are very popular.
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Thank you ๐
These photos look like they are straight out of my favourite magazine, Country Living! Beautiful.
Haha, it is very country living around here ๐
Beautiful photos. I love autumn.
Lovely flamboyant vistas! My kind of colours.
I’d say that orchard is the apple of your eye.
I quite fancy some of those apples! Though if they are grown for the cider market they are possibly not very nice eaters.
Cider originally referred to an intoxicating beverage (which is now often called hard cider), so somehow I think those drinkers weren’t bothered by the fact that the apples in question weren’t good for eating.
Herefordshire is cider country – most of the apples grown here go to one of the big cider companies. Not to be confused with apple juice which isn’t alcoholic ๐
So British usage is different from American usage. Over here, cider usually refers to apple juice; people typically say hard cider if they mean the alcoholic version.
Oops. I bet there have been a few headaches caused by that difference!