Our friend, Paul Soren posted a picture yesterday that I said I thought would make a good screensaver.
This morning Jackie took me on a forest drive.
We began with the woodland alongside Bisterne Close where
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the soft forest floor alongside contained
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dry acorn cups,
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fallen branches and crisp autumn leaves,
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clustered beneath long decaying trunks and branches gradually returning to the soil.
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The sculptural quality of an abandoned artefact was somewhat incongruous outside one of the houses.
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One of the many pools that have spent much of the summer in a parched condition now reflects neighbouring gates.
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Ponies perused our passing along Holmsley Passage.
Our friend mentioned above sent me an e-mail asking me to feel free to use his picture as my screensaver and sending me a jpg image of a black swan and cygnets somewhere outside Melbourne seen through his rain-splashed windscreen.
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I now see a picture from the other side of the world every time I switch on my computer.
For dinner this evening we repeated yesterday’s fare and beverages.