Saltram in November

Although it was chilly the sun was shining and the sky a lovely blue so we thought we would go to see the autumn colour in Saltram.

As we walked into the courtyard we saw they were preparing for the Christmas Festival and the Christmas tree was already up in the marquee covering the courtyard.

There were also two Christmas trees either side of the front door of the House.

There was lots of colour in the gardens.  The most spectacular was from the leaves on the acer trees.

There were also some flowers still out, in particular the nerine lilies and michaelmas daisies.

There was a new sculpture in the garden, a white tern. It looked beautiful.

Burrator in November

It was a grey morning on Saturday, but not too cold, so we thought a brisk walk around Burrator would be good.  We parked at the dam and saw the water was gushing over it.

The trees were gradually turning colour, it was a pity the sun wasn't shining on them as they would have been more attractive then.  Nevertheless we could still see reflections  in the reservoir.

As we walked to Norsworthy Bridge there were lots of streams flowing fast into the reservior.  The waterfall was as pretty as ever with the fallen leaves covering the ground.

The trees around Norsworthy Bridge were in full autumn colours and looked wonderful against the fast flowing water.