I recently met up with a friend in Dorset, and we had a long walk around the estate and a chat. The autumn colour has come later this year, and a lot of the trees have not yet changed much. It is possible that they will simply fall off, or it could be a late autumn like we had in 2019 when the trees finally changed at the end of November. This autumn has been a wet one, but we managed to have a dry day for our walk around the estate at Kingston Lacy. The last time that I visited Kingston Lacy was for the snowdrops walk in 2019! This was my third visit to Kingston Lacy as I had visited twice with friends in 2018 - once during the summer when I toured the house and once at Christmas for their winter illuminations, which were free to members.
The estate walk is approximately three miles long, and it starts off on the edge of the cattle pasture.
I've been into the house at Kingston Lacy twice - once to see all of the rooms and once to see only a few of the rooms that were open and decorated for the holidays in December.
The walk bordered the pasture for awhile before circling around into forest.
As you can see from the photographs, the leaves are starting to change with the orange maple below.
In the forest was a large holly bush full of red berries.
By the time we came near the end of the circular estate walk, it was mid-afternoon and starting to look like it was going to get dark with the sun low. Darkness is the downside to this time of the year.
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