I cannot just show images of nature around us in the Welsh Marches without including a couple of photos from our home at Lynch Court too! The photos are captured at several different times in the autumn, so the trees have changed colour a little during this period.
The first image above has our ha-ha in the foreground. A ha-ha is a very typical English “invention” from Victorian times. It constitutes the border between a more formal garden (which in our case isn’t very formal at all!) and the fields beyond, where sheep and horses and livestock could be grazing. The animals cannot cross over into the more formal garden, but if you are sitting in the garden looking out over the fields, it looks like it is one continuous garden/field, where the animals can freely roam around. The ha-ha can only be seen from the field, but not from the garden itself. A very romantic Victorian idea of being close to nature, but still keeping it at a civilised distance!
Our neighbours keep their horses on our field. They are very friendly and curious and followed me around, when I tried to capture the autumn colours. Maybe one reason is that I now and then give them a carrot, while we chat to each other!
