Today: A shock of a cold day. Hands numb, jacket, gilet, vest stay on all delivery. Jumped from high summer to winter over the weekend. Diffuse sunlight behind these heart shaped leaves in Christchurch make this bush sing today. A ghost like bush, Ipswich Grove, caught my eye with its eerie glow.

The weekends strong wind and heavy rain has brought down many just turned leaves, my opportunity to capture their beauty closed for another year.