Drizzly Monday walk (Coombe Wood)

After a lovely day yesterday it was a surprise to see grey sky this morning. The tall buildings of Croydon had disappeared in misty drizzle.

It didn't put me off going for a walk. 

Everything was damp and dripping. 

The gardener has been cutting all the hedges and tidying flower beds. Autumn red and orange are creeping over many of the plants.

Berries - this shows how poor my camera is at picking up some colours - these have come out rather pink.

 And the rose hips have come out too pink as well.

 Red leaves scrambling over the fence above the cafe courtyard.

Raindrops on grass seeds. 

I'm sure the pampas grass wasn't open last week - now tall white plumes shoot up from islands of leaves.

A layer of papery honesty seeds. 

A jumble of plants, heavy with raindrops.

Water droplets on grass seeds sparkling like exquisite glass sculptures.

 Cedar flowers.

Reddening leaves and tiny white flowers. 

 Callicarpa berries - they are actually much more purple than they look here.

Pale acer seeds. 

Looking ahead - that little tree has changed colour since last week.

WOW! Love this colour - so rich and fiery. 

A clump of puffball mushrooms 

Across the herbaceous border the big beech tree reveals scars where it has lost a couple of branches.

A lone yellow flower has pushed through the michaelmas daisies.

 Delicate stripes 

Orange berries. 

Bright splashes of orange. 

 Feather caught on grasses. 

Yew berries

I've already forgotten what these are called. The darkening berries hang down now.

Variety of stages of development. 

These berries are beginning to shrivel up. 

Starry seed pods. 

Red leaves scrambling over mossy roof. 

I can't resist another photo of these purple flowers before they fade. 

Thank you very much for joining me.