Golden Polish Autumn

[winter]

First of all, a very happy birthday to concordantnexus. His musings about Canadian winter got me thinking about Polish autumn, and how gorgeous this one has been. Sunday before All Hallows, I went through the neighbourhood wild park to the other cemetary, and on the way there I took photos. See below for rowans and apple orchards and crows and birches - all of these are at most a 20-minute walk from my apartment.





















































In other news, my heart goes out to arabwel and astarise, for varying reasons. Tomorrow is another day, ladies.

Comments

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

These are lovely! And oddly enough, look kind of like Maryland! Birches and scarlet leaves. Though I wonder what kind of bird it is in the third picture?

[winter]

That's a European crow - they're grey and white. Which is why I'm always confused when I see black crows in American movies :)

Bloody thing was hard to photograph, too. They always duck just when I'm about to take a photo. I once chased a crow on the beach halfway down to Gdansk before it stopped and graciously allowed itself to be photographed.

[xwingace]

Those pictures are magnificent.

XWA

[winter]

Thankee :) I should probably note that #2, #4 and one of the ones with the red bushes was taken by my mother, who caught the photo bug after I lent her my Minolta for San Francisco...

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photos! The trees are lovely! I didn't realize that crows came in colors other than black. ;-D The ones we have here in Iowa are HUGE. And mean.

[winter]

So are ours - especially about being photographed ;) And it's large, the grass is quite tall now since there's no point to mowing it just before the first frost.

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

these are lovely.... you still have everything so pretty there, here it's all cold and dark and wet and with no leaves öleft....

Andsd I can anever remember the English word for the tree in the first picture? *has one on her yard, sort of*

[winter]

Well, that was almost two weeks ago - right now it's cold and dark and wet, too, though some leaves are hanging on.

That tree's a rowan. Also called jarzębina in Polish :) Makes great vodka...

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

I can nvere remember that it's rowan.... in Finnish, it's called Pihlaja... never had any Rowan vodka but now I want to try :D (It also makes yummy candy :D)

we've already had snow twice here, but it melted away so it is rather ugly here :(

[concordantnexus.livejournal.com]

Isn't that "kawka" a "jackdaw"? Wiki link on jackdaws. "Wrony" are "crows" and they are usually black. "Kruki" are "ravens" and they too are usually black.

American Crows and American Ravens are both black. However, due to N American laws that prevent the keeping on them as pets, many movies and commercials use trained African White-Necked Ravens instead. :)

[winter]

Nah, Polish jackdaws are black with the grey back of the neck and usually blue eyes, and about half the size of a crow. All the crows around here have gray feathers on their bodies, as opposed to the... whatstheirname... gawrony, who are all black.

[winter]

P.S: European Hooded Crow

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Some lovely colours and shapes there.

Gina

[winter]

Thankee :) The golden autumn is my favourite time of year.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

These pictures show why autumn really is one of the most beautiful times of the year :) Absolutely gorgeous :)