As autumn seems to be on the way out, with mornings growing colder and trees shedding the last of their leaves for another year, I’m left reflecting how I seem to have spent the best bits in the car on the way to work rather than out amongst the trees.  I was fortunate to have some free time a couple of weeks ago though and so, with a favourable looking forecast (read: mist), decided to head down to Burnham Beeches; an old beech woodland in Buckinghamshire.  I hadn’t visited this woodland previously, but was thoroughly spoilt with good range of autumn colour, good leaf cover and a few hours of mist.  I was expecting mature beech woodland, but there is so much more on offer with little pockets of heather, ferns and silver birch dotted all over the place.  There’s even a cafe too – which is always a bonus.

Anyway, enough chatter, more images…

And probably my favourite from the morning, showing the full spectrum of leaf colour from green, through yellow to red…