Rusty limes frozen in an arrested autumn

Wenlock Edge, Shropshire On a closer look, the trees are not still holding leaves at all but are full of bracts and seedsFrom a distance, the common lime trees are a rich orangey colour. This looks wrong. The autumn leaves of these trees are buttery and the last of them blew down a month ago. The limes have a curious russet foliage, just like the coating of rust on the fallen leaves in a spring issuing from ironstone under the Short Woods a few miles north of here. The rusty limes look oddly out