Showing posts with label fall colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall colors. Show all posts

Monday, November 4, 2013

Just Last Week




























Dogwood leaves

glowed crimson through the morning mist.



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From a windy hilltop,

the afternoon sun ducked in and out of clouds

 lighting trees afire and dousing others in the shadows.

The colors were brilliant and brief.




"Nothing gold can stay."

Robert Frost


Thursday, October 17, 2013

Living Palette


After two seasons of blended shades of green, new hues now tint the landscape.



Yellow glazes a country road...



























crimson dyes the forest canopy... 



bulldozes out of the soil...



and splatters through the woods.



Here, where summer trees overlook children splashing and old men casting their lines,





























quiet water now mirrors a new palette in the making.


Sunday, November 4, 2012

Changes



Just when it looked like autumn had pulled the curtain on all its finery,
some of the oaks brought their orange and gold garments from the wardrobe 
and took center stage.





Behind the curtains, ladybugs have been looking for warm places to hibernate,
some finding shelter inside nearby houses.
This one, not quite ready to give up summer, 
was taking her last swim of the season in our birdbath.
I fished her out, 
and she gave her head a little shake as if she'd misplaced her Swim-ear.





When she threatened to dive back in,
I moved her to the raspberry leaves,
where she looked much more comfortable.
She's on her own, though, when it comes to winter shelter.













A blue jay's distinctive call can be heard from the bandstand.
Though the birds like to perch on the winterberry trees,
the berries must not be ripe yet,
because nobody's biting.


As surely as the scenes change,
there is one thing that is always constant.


The Lord's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22, 23