It was a long hot summer, wonderful for playing
and enjoying the outdoors, not so wonderful for the farmers and people on water
tanks, and though the sunny days seem to be holding on up here in the North,
you only need to see the deciduous trees turning all shades of gold and red to
know that we are well on our way to autumn.
Roland’s Wood is a good place to visit to celebrate
the changing season, with maples, beech, claret ash, gingko and tupelo trees
all putting on a splendid display. If
you haven’t been for a while, there are new tracks to explore taking you on different
routes through the Woods, and all the clearing and mulching has really tidied
the place up, making it lighter and more open – new vistas and even new trees
to meet.
Plenty of people and their dogs have been enjoying the
Woods over the school holidays – lots of children visiting and clambering over
logs, discovering fungi, tightrope walking along the edge of the ponds, and
running up and down hills via this path or that…
Georgie and Ollie clambering over logs at Roland's Wood
Please feel free to contact me jeannie.skinner@dia.govt.nz if you'd like to contribute your own writing or photos to this Roland's Wood blog – it would be great to have input from others to help tell the story of the Woods and the pleasure it brings people.
