Afternoon outdoors

The weather today was unusually warm and bright for Mid-October, so I went out for a walk with my camera up the Taff Trail from Pontcanna past Llandaff Rowing Club to Hailey Park in Llandaff North.

At the far end of Hailey Park, which runs beside the river, I discovered a newly opened pedestrian bridge over the Taff, opening footpaths to Radyr on the other side.
 

The new bridge has been built on top of a railway bridge that once linked the Melingriffth tin plate works with Taff Vale line on the west bank of the river. Founded in the middle of the eighteenth century, and in its time the largest in the world, the works closed down in 1957. The site was later cleared and was absorbed into the park, providing playing fields and a wild area.
  

It's remarkable how green the leaves on the trees still are, as if it were still late August, with only a few occasional patches of dark red. Some, but not all of the ground foliage has turned yellow. The colour contrasts are amazing.
  

It did me a power of good to get out in the fresh air and soak in the colours of the landscape. I ended my walk in the centre of Radyr, catching the 63 bus back to Pontcanna in time to cook supper before going out to the Chi Gung class.