Autumn lust pics

Sigh...  we've been blessed with some dreamy weather this autumn.  You really can't beat that special, stripey golden light that you get on a sunny Autumn day - it totally knocks spots off summer, in my opinion.

On Sunday we went for a ramble in Richmond Park, which was full of deer, showing off their antlers to a ring of inevitable amateur photographers.

( Pics or it didn't happen )

Full set on Flickr, here   
(or here, if you know me on Facebook)

Can't decide what I think about this...

Vegetarians, would you eat a steak if it had been grown in a lab, rather than as part of a sentient being?

Courtesy of silenttex...   BBC article about lab-grown meat here:  Grow Your Own meat



Presumably, for a lot of non-meat-eaters, losing the farming/killing elements would solve the problem and get them back onto bacon butties... but it's hard to shake off the instinctive feeling of 'wrongness' about meat grown entirely in a lab.

Hmmm...