Yep, Autumn is on the way...

The colours are so very gorgeous. I took ages to decide between this image of Rowan berries on the Esplanade by the river or one and one of green, yellow and red Virginia creeper on the castle outer walls. I might go back after school this week to get the creeper.
The tree is totally laden with these berries but they were bouncing about in the wind and poor Mr PP was getting a tad bored waiting for me to get a good shot.
We were having a 'romantic' child-free early evening stroll as Alex has gone off for a sleep-over with some friends (none of them are back until Wednesday - so they are making the most of it). I only took about a dozen photos of this, that and...

LAST DAY of the holidays - back to work tomorrow INSET for two days, then the beasties are back! (love it really!)