Seven Day Nature Photograph Challenge - Day Seven

This is my seventh photograph in the seven day nature photograph challenge.

This photograph was taken just this week as a direct result of the seven day nature photograph challenge. Yes it's grapes, British grapes. My neighbour has a vine which cascades from his garden over the wall into the area where I park my car. The grapes look wonderful, but they are inedible (unless you like really, really, bitter things) so they literally wither on the vine. I like the colours in the photograph, the contrast of the natural (the grapes) and the man-made (wall) and the fact that the vine leaves are reddening to match the wall.

The challenge involves posting one nature photograph a day for seven days and nominating one other person on each of those days. So my final nomination is musician and photographer Guido Rincon from the folk group Carnac (only if he wants to do it, of course and assuming he hasn't already been challenged).

From "Tales of Autumn in Languedoc" By J.S.Watts

There is just time enough to bask,

For a slight once-upon-a -time moment,

In the heady rush of gold and brown

Coursing through trees and vines

Like a honeyed but deadly kiss.

The vineyards soon will blush, then redden

To darker more serious contusions.

Then comes the time of darkening.

"Tales of Autumn in Languedoc" appears in the poetry collection Cats and Other Myths by J.S.Watts (Lapwing Publications, 2011)