These are some of the many beautiful scenes I encounter daily at the Abbotsford Convent in my first Autumn here . There is a slight melancholy about Autumn for me, exaggerated this year because many of my friends are where I was last year Europe and I am not as employed as I would like to be, but also an implied fertility as nature sets the preconditions for new growth
- the season of mellow fruitfulness 
I have used some of these textures and
