online: 15 october 2010 modified: 14 october 2010 11 october 2010 fallen leaves
Sandy Heath to Kenwood
...walking on fallen leaves... the first i've encountered this year... carpeting both pavement and forest floor... some brown, some yellow, some still pale green... some lit by streaks of sunlight between projected shadows of the now less leafy trees... but leafy enough to slow down the north east wind to near stillness in this corner of the forest...
...but now the wind increases... trees sway...leaves fall... cold gusts of wind reach even here... then quickly die away...
...and pausing at the outdoor cafe this monday afternoon... only about a dozen people here midst perhaps a hundred seats... sitting at a table by the wall... that i used to frequent... was that a different time?...
...revisiting the hedgeless fields of landscaped garden... long shadows of tall trees on grass,.. beneath a cloudless sky... ten to twenty people sitting and lying on the grass in autumn clothing... in those places still in sunlight... these could be the last days of summery weather...
...the evident prosperity of those who frequent this part of the heath... and not a sign of the gobal poverty or collective danger to all of us who inhabit the earth now facing problems that none can solve... as yet... perhaps need not until things worsen... or unless... for as conditions change so do we all... despite evident resistance... and in the meantime tea and cakes and comfort... as crows or rooks rise up and resettle in the tops of the tallest trees...
...two fashionably dressed young women pass in conversation that could conceal this here and now...
...but now the sun is hidden and we are all in shadow of the forest to the west...
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