Autumn walk in Hertfordshire- English country pictures
Woolmer Green ©2008 John Barnabas Leith
A stroll on a calm and sunny September day is one of the great pleasures of Autumn in England. Erica and I have a regular circuit that we walk - it usually takes us around 30 minutes - from our Hertfordshire home and there are various places where I almost always find myself moved to take photographs, if the light is right. And the light was right last Friday.
Robbery Bottom Lane and railway viaduct ©2008 John Barnabas Leith
Autumn has a particular look and feel and a particular aroma. A slight sharpness in the air, even when the sun is shining. The scent of benign decay, of fallen leaves and conkers. The leaves turning on the trees. It’s that melancholic but delightful time of the year again.
Autumn woods ©2008 John Barnabas Leith
Harvested fields with two trees ©2008 John Barnabas Leith
Hedgerow tree ©2008 John Barnabas Leith
Sadly, we are not free of litter. Smoking kills!
Smoking kills ©2008 John Barnabas Leith
You can see more of my photos on my Flickr site.
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Robbery Bottom Lane!
How beautifully English!
What’s its history?
Beware!
Allegedly Dick Turpin plied his highwayman’s trade hereabouts, so we have Robbery Bottom Lane and Turpin’s Ride and other references. I suspect that these are modern namings - I don’t think the evidence for Dick Turpin doing his stuff around here is very strong.
Thank you for these images, they are the pictures of my childhood.
If you could take some pictures of the field / path leading up to the woods alongside the railway cutting (turn right after the viaduct), that would be perfect, also to return to ‘bluebell wood’ and the victorian dump for some images. Fabulous.
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