Mists and mellow fruitfulness

There's little point in photographing mists, of which we've had quite a lot recently, but the mellow fruitfulness of autumn is well to the fore. Here are hawthorn and rowan berries waiting for the thrushes to arrive. But don't anyone dare try and say that they are forecasting a hard winter as some country 'lore' pretends. The berry crop is a reflection of past growing conditions going back a year or even more.
Malcolm

Hawthorn

Rowan

 

Sea Thrift (Armeria maritima)

I searched on the internet for a picture of Sea thrift, or Sea pinks as it is perhaps more commonly known (Armeria maritima) in Autumn, but failed to find any.  There were bazillions of pictures of the plant in Spring - covered in pretty pink flowers - but anyone can take a picture of pretty pink flowers....  What is needed is more pictures of stuff in Autumn, when the flowers have long gone and things are difficult to identify.

So this is what could be an internet first - a picture of autumnal Thrift....

Back in the good 'ol days, we used to buy our sweeties with things called 'Thre'penny Bits', which were small twelve-sided brass-coloured coins.  While they did of course have a picture of our Sovereign Leader on the A side, the B side featured a picture of Thrift.   Its amazing what Wikipedia will tell you...