#ScenicSaturday 08/Oct/22

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography
Beech Tree, Forest of Dean

I missed this feature last week due to concentration on the #MABLE event being run by my publisher, Fantastic Books Publishing. Readers will find the event fascinating and a good source for new books, many discounted for the period of the event, which ends 31st October.
This month, all photographs in the series were taken in October, though not necessarily this year. My digital pictures go back to when I bought my first DSLR camera a few years back, and I like to share them.
This image is from the Forest of Dean and was taken in 2015. That wonderful beech tree has since suffered some damage from fierce winds, but still stands guardian to the entrance of a quarry still in use.

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16 thoughts on “#ScenicSaturday 08/Oct/22”

  1. Pingback: #ScenicSaturday 08/Oct/22 | In the Net! – Pictures and Stories of Life

    1. Thank you, Lynette. The old sentinel still stands in spite of losing one of its major branches in a storm last year. Its roots climb up and between the rocks to the left of the trunk and form a fascinating hump there.

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    1. Thanks, Noelle. Yes, the colours are just starting to emerge here now. We rarely get the blanket fall colours of New England, because our trees are very varied species with different times of retiring for winter. Many beech trees keep their russet leaves throughout the winter and shed them only when spring returns.

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      1. We had a lot of copper beeches on our old property. The leaves stayed all winter and didn’t drop until the new ones started growing in the spring, so we had some color during the dull winter months.

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        1. I love copper beeches. They’re quite unusual here, most of ours are the standard green-leaved type but their russet autumn leaves definitely make the forest appear warmer in the winter.

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    2. Dear Stuart and Noelle,

      Hello! I am impressed with the photo of the Beech Tree at Forest of Dean. It reminds me of the 1945 popular French song “Les feuilles mortes” (literally “The Dead Leaves”) sung by Edith Piaf and Yves Montand with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, and later translated into English as “Autumn Leaves” by the American songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1947.

      Included here is the version sung by Nat King Cole. Oh, how nostalgic it made me feel!

      Happy autumn and Happy October to both of you!

      Speaking of music, I have recently published something much lesser known about Her Royal Majesty in a post entitled “🎼🎹 Pondering Musical Lineage on the Queen’s Birthday 👑🍰“, which has been much improved in the last few days.

      Wishing you a wonderfully productive October doing, enjoying or blogging whatever that satisfies you the most!

      Yours sincerely,
      SoundEagle

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        1. Dear Stuart,

          You are very welcome. I am delighted that you like Nat King Cole’s rendition. Speaking of songs like that, I have added an extra handful of other very nice September Songs to the “Songs” section of my post entitled “🌤️🌾 A September to Remember: Greeting Post-Pandemic and Post-Elizabethan Age 👑🏰 with Sapphires, Asters, Poems and Songs 💎🌼📜🎶“. One of the songs is the digitally remastered version of Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “September Song”. For your convenience, it is located at

          https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2022/09/30/a-september-to-remember-greeting-post-pandemic-and-post-elizabethan-age-with-sapphires-asters-poems-and-songs/

          Please enjoy my selection of music to your heart’s content! I welcome your input and feedback there, as I am certainly very keen and curious about what you will make of my said post, where I have also revealed my musical connections to Sir Edward Elgar and Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

          Yours sincerely,
          SoundEagle

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          1. Thanks, SoundEagle. Your posts are so content-rich that they take some time to read and respond to. And Monday is always a somewhat busy time for me, so I’ll visit your posts later in the week.

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        2. Dear Stuart,

          Hello! Please kindly pardon a mistake that I made in my previous comment.

          The post in which I have revealed my musical connections to Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the composer Sir Edward Elgar is in a special post entitled “Pondering Musical Lineage on the Queen’s Birthday“, available at

          https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/pondering-musical-lineage-on-the-queens-birthday/#top

          Yours sincerely,
          SoundEagle

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