This series of posts depicts our beautiful world, hopefully encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.

Please note the changes to this series, detailed below.

Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean. This track passes through a plantation of mixed evergreens and deciduous broadleaves, and much of the ground under the trees is covered in either bracken, which dies off in winter, or ferns that remain green. At one end of the track a working quarry supplies sandstone for various projects. Some of the quarried rocks are pretty massive.

The track runs around part of a relatively steep hillside and takes walkers beside the top fence protecting the experimental beaver enclosure from intruding wild boar. At the end of this stretch is a small off-road area used by walkers to park cars. The narrow road beside it runs to a small settlement called The Pludds.

From the car park, you can return along a wider, flat forest road, usually completely traffic free, but sometimes used for maintenance by Forestry England, as this is a working forest. The lower fence for the beaver enclosure follows this road, which eventually splits into two.

The track following the enclosure becomes narrower again, and you can see the work of the beavers on the waterway below. You’d need to be there at dawn or dusk to see the animals themselves, of course. The track continues and leads to a junction of trails taking walkers on three different routes, one of which returns to the quarry. We’ve walked them all, frequently.

At this time of the year, most of the conifers remain green, but some do lose their needles. All the broadleaves change foliage colour during autumn, of course, giving rise to the spread of yellows, oranges and reds that turn the forest into a seasonal scene lasting a few weeks due to the many different varieties of trees growing here.

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My intention is now to restrict this website mainly to posts relating to writing and books, so I’ll be continuing this #SeasonalSaturday thread, and others not concerned with the world of words, on the Medium platform instead. I’ll post short notices for all other posts and provide special links here for non-members of Medium, so all visitors can continue to enjoy them without cost.
I’ll also continue to share a different daily picture of natural beauty on most days, with the hashtag #ourworldiswonderful, on FaceBook, Threads, Instagram, and BlueSkySocial.
Please comment, like, and share posts to spread the joy of natural beauty so we reach as many people as we can. It just might help us save our threatened environment.

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