Still some autumn colours to be seen in nature, this last week of October - in spite of rather wet, grey and foggy weather. The photos below were taken during a walk into town and back yesterday, along the river.
We don't see all that much of the British/American kind of Halloween celebrations with spooky garden decorations and kids going trick-or-treat-ing around here; but it's very common to light candles and put winter decorations on the graves of one's ancestors, for what we call All Saints' Weekend (Allhelgona). (In church: All Saints' Day on Saturday, and All Souls' Day on Sunday.)
“Fall leaves us in awe with its colorful magic!” (Unknown)
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” – Vincent Van Gogh
This is such a cute trio of tiny Christmas trees! And the yellow leaves look very fancy. I like your way of celebrating much better than Halloween
ReplyDeleteGinny, according to our various news media, Halloween celebrations have increased a lot in Sweden in later years - I just don't see any signs of it in my immediate neighbourhood. This year it seems they're going to have some kind of spooky event in the town park for teenagers. I don't intend to dress up as a teenager and attend, though! ;-)
DeleteThe pond and the falling leaves are exquisite
ReplyDeletePeople here tend to decorate partly with classic autumn flowers, leaves, mushrooms, woodland animals etc., and partly with Halloween-related items. Mostly where children live, you see carved pumpkins on the doorstep, and some folks really go to town with their decor. They are welcome to it as long as I don't have to join in :-)
ReplyDeleteWe've been having beautiful calm autumn weather all week. Hopefully it lasts until the weekend; Sunday is one of the few days until Christmas when O.K. and I do not have anything lined up and can go for a nice long walk or a hike in the Black Forest or the colourful vineyards.
PS: I'm all with Van Gogh here! We don't seem to have enough eyes to take it all in, or cameras to document it with :-)
DeleteMeike, there are very few private gardens in my part of town. For all I know, there be more Halloween decorations in those residential areas where families have their own house and garden. I still doubt we come anywhere near the American traditions, though...
DeleteThe weather has been so terrible that I've not been walking in the Castle Grounds where there are trees and therefore leaves. However the road to The Woodlands has been treacherous with wet leaves. I love the autumn colours far more than the colours of any other time of year. I often wonder what I've said in past autumns and whether my views have always been like that.
ReplyDeleteGraham, wet leaves can be very treacherous indeed. Around where I live, and also in the cemetery where I walk almost daily, they have been hard at work with leaf blowers and rakes and street sweeping machines the past couple of weeks - so usually possible to get out for a short walk even on wet days.
DeleteUSA has gone crazy with expensive Halloween decorations. many years ago, when I was a trick or treater, before you were born, the only decor was a carved pumpkin with a candle in it. I like your way much better and those trees are adorable. are they planted trees or potted trees or do you know which
ReplyDeleteSandra, Halloween celebrations have increased here too in later years (no doubt influenced by what we see from the US), but we're still very far from the excess of decorations that seems to be common over there. In my part of town there are very few private gardens though.
DeletePS. As for the little "Christmas trees" in the cemetery flower bed, they're neither planted nor potted... I'll show you in a post coming up!
DeleteLovely colours. Halloween festivities seem to me to be mainly in the USA, here in NZ people don't really get into it, sure the stores sell Halloween products but people don't go ga ga over it.
ReplyDeleteAmy, some Halloween celebrations have increased in popularity here in later years (according to the media), but still don't come anywhere close to what I see from American blogs that I follow.
DeleteYou still have a lot of beautiful colourful autumn leaves, and we're now into November!
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