A walk to 'Giant'

Yesterday's morning exercise was to clear up a few leaves which are now bagged up ready for the 'debris' collection.

This morning I decided on a walk to Giant (local supermarket) for a bit of exercise, once the rain had stopped.

Despite the number of squirrels around, the ground outside the front door is still covered with acorns and most of them have now split, sprouted and started to grow.. We could be living in dense forest soon!

There is quite a variety in the colours of the leaves in the garden and by the roadside.

These oak leaves are beautiful and very large indeed..

The seed heads in the evergreen magnolias along the road are ready to burst..

Along the side of the playing field at the edge of the Parkway, the trees are as beautiful as anywhere..

At the supermarket itself there were, as usual, some rather interesting floral offerings alongside some more conventional plants.

We had seen the green orchids before and I had taken a picture as I thought that they were rather unusual..

Now they are displayed next to an extraordinary floral concoction which it took me a while to decipher..

I am not sure quite why it is necessary to turn everything into turkey shapes for Thanksgiving, but evidently it is.  

So, in each little pot is a single Chrysanthemum cutting with an improbably large bloom, dusted with silver glitter for good measure.  That is where reality stops and fantasy begins..,add a small pompom to the flower as a head and decorate with beak and eyes.  Then add a splendid 'Fall' coloured tail in the shape of three bottle brush style decorations fixed to the other side of the flower..  Hey presto - the perfect gift for Thanksgiving..,