Despite forecasts of wind and rain, autumn moves on in fairly calm weather. The hornbeam leaves seem very fine this year and the picture shows them carpeting the ground in an overstood coppice in Coneyburrow Wood.
Not far away there is an extensive patch of hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) now with fluffy seed heads. In summer the dusty pink flowers were alive with silver-washed fritillary and, sometimes, white admiral butterflies and they tend to look rather dull and dowdy at this end of the year. However, they have their own autumnal beauty especially when caught by a slanting sunbeam.
