Another weekend on Orust. Took our laptops and headed out after work already on Thursday. Logged in Friday morning and worked to the rising sun, the crackling fire, and a steaming coffee. Peaceful, quiet and easy to concentrate and get stuff done.

October is a fantastic month. The air is crips and cold, and the colours are amazing. In a month, or less, the trees will be bare and everything will be grey and colourless, and it will be months before the colours appear again.

After we’ve logged out in the afternoon we took Cooper for a long walk. The October sun was low and rays of light cut through the trees and sent flashes deep into the forest. We let Cooper run free and he darts in and out of the trees and bushes on picking up scents from the local wildlife. He’s great, he disappears in amongst the trees for a few minutes but he keeps coming back. Maybe it’s the tube of rabbit paté that Anna carries?

As always, we walk past the abandoned caravan under the oak trees and the abandoned Nuffield Universal tractor by the barn. I will soon be able to make a stop motion movie of them decaying.

Saturday is cold and a little cloudy. Some showers roll in later in the day but they are quite local. I fly the drone and get some nice shots of the colourful trees lit by the sun, the rain-laden grey clouds, and the rainbow.

I hear that there is high likelyhood of a Northern Aurora but as night falls more big clouds drift in. There are still some clear patches and, looking north, I can see a faint glow near the Big Dipper (Karlavagnen). I set up the camera on a tripod and take some long exposures with a wide lens and when I look at the results the glow is even clearer.

Next time we come out here the leaves will probably all be on the ground and it will be bare and grey, and cold.