On the back road to Liss ....

What an amazing autumn we are having. The sun on the trees this afternoon was tremendous, the beeches are just about in their best colours and the Downs look beautiful.


"The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold
and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the
magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul."

- Monica Baldwin, I Leap over the Wall


"Ho! for the leaves that eddy down,
Crumpled yellow and withered brown,
Hither and yonder and up the street
And trampled under the passing feet;
Swirling, billowing, drifting by,
With a whisper soft and a rustling sigh,
Starting aloft to windy ways,
Telling the coming of bonfire days."

- Grace Strickler Dawson, Bonfire Days


"Swinging on delicate hinges
the Autumn Leaf
Almost off the stem"

- Jack Kerouac