As we walk back and forth to the University, either for D’s classes or for choir, we can’t help but notice the leaves drifting everywhere. This is particularly true when we walk home with a friend from choir, as she cannot resist kicking the piles of leaves. Well, this past week our friend wasn’t at choir practice, so we walked home by ourselves … and noticed several other people kicking the piles of golden, rustly leaves. Autumn has dropped her bounty, and Winter will soon be here.
It has been down below freezing at night, and hasn’t crept much higher during the days. With all of the chill, the magpies are about, gathering and storing (we surmise). Or maybe it’s just that they cannot hide so well, with fewer leaves in the trees. D has made it a special project, of sorts, to try to get good pictures of these mischievous little creatures. He succeeds best with the ones around the University: the students feed them, rather like other people might feed pigeons. The ones in the rest of Kelvingrove Park, though, are quite wary, and will take flight the moment they see the camera. D swears they do it to taunt him.
D’s first week of lecturing is over, and we’re off to curl up in bed with a few good books. The night doesn’t seem to be too wild, despite being Halloween. They don’t seem to really get into it all that much, here.
Last night, on the bus on the way to choir, we saw a wee girl dressed up as a lady-bug. She held a cardboard ax, and mimed chopping the head off of the gentleman in front of her, until her mother noticed. That was last night, mind you. Halloween? We’ve seen very little by way of costumes, despite having gone out to take night pictures of the University.
– D & T
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I love the blue magpie “stepping out”! Happy Halloween!
I agree–love how you caught him mid-strut.
While *I* love the child pretending to chop off a strangers head!
I’m still trying to figure out how that axe went with the whole ladybug gig, but we have a calendar from Open University and it specifies a certain “ladybird” (the 21-spot) as being a vegetarian… I thought all of them were! But, we’re in the UK, for all we know, ladybugs use axes and hunt for their food…
Lovely photos!
I saw a lady bug in the street, too, on Halloween. Except she wasn’t chopping off anyone’s head. LOL!
Have a good one.
Paz
WE dressed up.. and went to an English Uni party. We were hippies, because.. it works… and I made hemp brownies. There were rumours flying around all evening about the “funny brownies” that no one would eat. It was food grade hemp, you get it at roots and fruits, it’s just food! No drugs! More brownies for us…
On our way home saturday night, loads of people were dressed up, one day late. Looked like they were heading for the club though.
You should have walked down Great Western Road around midnight on Friday – there were tons of costumed people about, including a guy whose entire costume consisted of sponges taped to his head. I think he was supposed to be Spongebob Squarepants.