The maze is resting

This is the maze behind Russborough House in Ireland but not the image one usually sees of the dense passages of closely cropped boxwood, winding in on themselves in a lovely pattern, intended to be mildly perplexing.
The lush green is gone, replaced by a bright and pleasing russet tone but no one plans to walk the maze in the winter: too cold, too dry; not at all what we had in mind....