Mushroom autumn walks

 

I love autumn (and not only because it was my birthday last week and I am an October-girl:-)...the amazing colours in nature, the harvest, the fresh apples& pears...and for few years I am enjoying also the mushroom walks:-)) Lets dive into the autumn rainbow with my pictures below! This time I am sharing pictures taken in the forests in the Netherlands and Normandy, France...

Pumpkin fever or lost inbetween pumkins: At Water market of Montreal...

 

Where do I start?!:-)) I know/ermember pumpkin as long as I remember myself. I used to eat it in cakes (with sugar+walnuts: the way we have it in Bulgaria in winter) or simply baked in oven with honey on the top. Since I live in Western Europe I have discovered one uses it as a veggie. So for few years now I am absolutely hooked to pumpkin soups or pumpkin-gratins...Imagine my joy when we went to At Water market in Montreal and we could literally dive in huge amounts of different kinds of pumpkins. Next to orange and yellow, I saw white, green, multi-colours ones. Most of these sorts I have never seen in my life...The way they were presented and on sale, as well the artistic ones just made me smile, so today you may find a selection of these beauties! Of course some already pre-painted pumpkins were there to remind of the coming Halloween too:-)

Peak of Canadian autumn colours in Ontario

 

In the last days of September one could already start admiring the breathtaking autumn colours in Ontario, Canada. While moving north from Toronto, direction Algonquin Regional Park, the leaves of the trees were getting more and more amazing and the views (even from the car) simply stunning! What a fantastic way to start the monthof October, my month:-)

Autumn colours in cozy Elora, Ontario...

 

What a sunny Sunday in the autumn-colour-painted Ontario countryside! Yesterday we spent a great day in the cozy town Elora among its creatuve street art, beautiful old houses and pastel nature colours. Several cute shops and galleries invite you for a visit, squirrels run around the trees and the sun was shining! At the end of the day we enjoyed a Canadian organic ice-cream too: I had a ball of lavender-blueberry one, while Nico enjoyed two huge scoops of maple+pumpkin ice-cream...A place not to miss when you are in this part of the (big) country!

Autumn colours and quinces in Filstrof&Lorraine

 

Its again this colourful time of the year, when nature paints the world around us in all rainbow nuances and presents us with its treasures.

 

Orange pumpkins and golden apples, fresh pears and shiny yellow quinces-the autumn harvest is always a happy time...Quinces are really special nature gifts. Even if they resemble the apple and pear, their aroma and taste is completely different. I had enjoyed them in fresh pressed apple-quince-juice or in quince-gelee...Very exquisite fruit...some people even talk about it as the almost forgotten fruit...

 
I met also a cute field mouse...

Colours of the autumn...around Europe:)

Maybe because I am an autumn kid, i do love this season. This year the first 2 weeks of October have been freezing but afterwards weather really improved and the so familiar to me autumn sunny time started-with a colour symphony of yellow, orange and red in tens different nuances and tones:)

Thats why today I would love to share some sunny and colourful images with you. Of course autumn always signals that the winter is so close, but is not this awesome golden-redish magnificence garnished with sunshine such a nice thing to contemplate?:-)