Silver Birch

Silver birch leaves, Redland, Bristol, December 2025

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Leaf fall random form

silver-laced serrated edge

autumn’s winter creep

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by Scooj

Embers

Autumn leaf, Dame Emily Park, Bristol, October 2025
Autumn leaf, Dame Emily Park, Bristol, October 2025

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Those long summer days

long since a memory lost

autumn’s stranglehold

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by Scooj

Crunch

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Crisp leaves underfoot

avenue of London planes

casting off old clothes

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by Scooj

Glider

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With consummate grace

a sycamore leaf descends

concentric circles

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by Scooj

Common Emerald

Common Emerald, Bristol, July 2023
Common Emerald, Bristol, July 2023

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Leafy mimicry

evolutionary trait

beauty of nature

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by Scooj

Emerald


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Our lives are enriched

with gifts bestowed upon us

in natural form

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by Scooj

Haiku 3

 

Deathly cold darkness

adorns Autumn’s fallen leaves

with Winter’s halo

 

by Scooj

(originally posted in March 2015)

With huge apologies to those who have been with me on this journey for a while, this is the third time I have posted Haiku 3 but I haven’t yet been able to better it, and it speaks to me each year at this time.

1618. Leonard Lane (17)

Regular readers will know I don’t like to post pieces unless I know the artist, but sometimes it simply isn’t possible. This really unusual piece in Leonard Lane is in a more traditional fine art style, but added to that it incorporates some leaves that have been sprayed with metallic paint which make up the subject’s headdress.

Unknown artist, Leonard Lane, Bristol, January 2018
Unknown artist, Leonard Lane, Bristol, January 2018

When I see pieces like this, I guess that they are by artists wanting to give some outdoor work a go. Leonard Lane is probably the perfect place for this on account of it being a quiet backwater full of graffiti and very few ‘enforcers’. An interesting piece.

Natural toy

 

Irresistible

a small wind-blown leaf tumbles

across the pavement

drawing the puppy away

from sniffing grubby lampposts.

 

by Scooj

Day star

 

Brightness penetrates

through the leafy canopy;

Summer here at last.

 

by Scooj