Autumn Colours

What says "autumn" (or indeed "Bonfire Night") more eloquently than a burnt-out car amid the drifts of leaves on a gloomy late afternoon in November? Or a fly-tipped vacuum cleaner and frying pan in subdued Hallowe'en tones, carefully arranged against a tree?

Or how about this bizarre mash-up of religiosities at our local cemetery, all for a child who died well before his first birthday?

I suppose these trees at Mottisfont Abbey, near Romsey do also have something more conventionally seasonal to say, but we've heard all that before, haven't we? Nice, though, if you're into that sort of thing.

There's some interesting "negative space" action going on in that first one: cropping it square brings it to the foreground, so to speak:

A square crop also worked best with this arboreal wrestling match on Southampton Common:

That's it. A pictorial post of few words, this time, but lots more words coming up soon.