Good guesses, considering it was so tightly cropped, rotated and with the brightness whacked right down! It’s a metal water spout with the orange provided by a copper downpipe and dead leylandii branches:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
On the subject of birches, I adore them and they are plentiful in my area, but they don't generally get very big. The heavy snows and ice storms usually bend them to the ground, and often they don't recover.
Oh that makes sense @Nollie - is it a fountain? Makes me laugh, sticking its tongue out like that.
Your birches remind me of a corps de ballet, @CrankyYankee, with some standing and others sitting, in a sort of Swan Lake styling! Lovely autumnal colouring in your other photos.
That is sort of an Xmasy cosmic space dust grouping of pine cones, @Fire.
I am seeing a necklace and barbed wire in your last photo @NormandyLiz.
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This is a bit of a cheat. The best of the autumn colours have been blown away by the winds - sadly it was too wet to take the camera out when they were at their best. This is enhanced thanks to LunaPic (Picasso at about 40%). It the old Paris to Dieppe (and on to London) railway line that has been converted to a foot/cycle path.
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And well done on finding a creative use for deal leylandii branches!
My offerings today - dead thistles. I just love the shapes they make
Only processed to convert from RAW and cropping on the 2nd one
Your birches remind me of a corps de ballet, @CrankyYankee, with some standing and others sitting, in a sort of Swan Lake styling! Lovely autumnal colouring in your other photos.
That is sort of an Xmasy cosmic space dust grouping of pine cones, @Fire.
I am seeing a necklace and barbed wire in your last photo @NormandyLiz.