The Golden Colours of Autumn

These photos were taken some time ago (on 15th September, as you can see), but I decided to post them only now to bring some joy into your gloomy (as far as the weather goes) autumn weather. The leaves from our birch tree (you can see the first branches changing the colours, too) are like little golden coins scattered on the ground and just looking at these photos makes me want to turn back time to that day again :-) It was the last day that we could sit outside in the backyard on "the golden carpet". The birch tree is nearly bare now - I'll post on some photos for all of you to see - but it's still beautiful. Now, it looks like a giant with a million tiny hands stretching towards the sky. Still a beautiful sight! Just now we are having the first snowshower and some quite heavy winds. Well, let's wait till morning - perhaps I'll be able to make some photos of the road in front of the house covered in snow...