Tag: autumn

Autumn leaves

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I have always loved trees and the forest. Where I grew up the forest mainly was spruce, pine and birch. But moving closer to the Norwegian coast, where I live now, oak is also common. I think oak is one of the most beautiful trees together with maple. I like to photograph the oak leaves the whole year around, its shape is so beautiful. And the branches on the tree are so elegant and gives the tree such a wonderful shape.

Now it is November and almost all the leaves on my favourite oak trees has fallen to the ground. They are still beautiful, resting on the the field covered with frost, snow or droplets.

Soon the leaves will be covered with white snow and the trees stands naked until spring arrives and gives new life to next years leaves. I am looking forward to that.

Blueberry leaves

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It is truly amazing to watch how natures color change through the year. Take the blueberry plant, in spring its leaves are all bright green and full of vitality. And through the summer the plant is using all its energy to flourish and produce sweet berries. When the berries are ripe and someone have picked them or they have just fallen to the ground the leaves color change from bright green to deep red, purple and blue.

October mood

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Grey clouds
the grass is brown
colorless
and all wet

still nature
keep being beautiful
not in colors
but in shapes

a field of ferns
resembling lace
and brighten
my October mood

Spider

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Little spider
guards the web
like a mighty queen
await vibrations
from a tiny insect to be seen

Little spider
never to be beaten
its beautiful web
a golden trap
for the tiny insect to be eaten

Winter – not yet

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It is November and still the winter hasn’t arrived here in Norway. In this time of the year we use to have temperatures below zero and it is time for snow. But we still have a rather warm autumn and in the forest there still grows mushrooms.

On Friday when I went for a walk it was 13 C and the sun was shining. It was a wonderful day. I went to a view point in mye neighborhood, the first photo. The mushroom on the second photo is beautiful even though it is getting old and fading very soon. I am not sure what type it is and if it is edible, but it could be Hygrophorus hypothejus also known as “herald of the winter”.

Sunny forest details

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Autumn is my favorite time of the year in many ways:

  • The temperature is very nice (not too hot)
  • The air is crisp and fresh
  • The sun is much lower in the sky = good light for forest photograpy
  • Mushrooms
  • Multicolored leaves
  • Beautiful decay of flowers and plants

On some of my walks I find a lot of mushrooms, in other walks I can spot different forest details. Especially when the sun is shining a photo safari in the woods can be very interesting when it comes to light and colors.

Sunny moss
  • Sun through fern leaves
  • Bokeh overload

Mycena and Stropharia – tiny mushrooms

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A while ago I watched “Fantastic Fungi” together with my daughter. The mushroom kingdom is a fantastic world of fungi living and working together with both plants, trees and insects. The time lapses of growing mushrooms is so fun to watch.

Taking a walk in the forest after seeing this little documentary I decided to go look for the tiny mushrooms. The ones growing deep in the moss, on dead tree logs and among the fallen autumn leaves.

It was not easy to decide what types of mushroom I found but hopefully I have got the right family order for the mushrooms in the photo´s. The two first I think might be a part of the Mycena family. Number three is probably a Stropharia member due to the collar on the stem, the last one I am not sure about but it looks like it can be a part of the Armillaria family.