I'm seeing more and more changing leaves as I walk to work each day. I took the photo above on Sept. 29, and as you'll see in the following photos -- ordered chronologically over the following few days -- the colors seem to be getting progressively deeper. Not a surprise, I suppose.
Even with a spot of bird poop on them, they're beautiful!
Every year I wind up with way too many leaf pictures. But when I see a nice leaf on the sidewalk it seems a crime to not record it for posterity.
There are still plenty of trees that are mostly green -- all the ones in our back garden, for example -- so we're nowhere near "peak leaf" yet.
I love the fall leaf colours, the one you are holding is the prettiest. It's spring here, yet looking through my front window I can see a tree that is mostly orange and red.
ReplyDeleteThere is something remarkable how nature can produce the most beautiful colours, even in the death of a leaf.
ReplyDeleteThelma, sadly I don't think that really applies to humans.
DeleteI do think it works if you consider the process of letting go and allowing yourself to be moved by the vagaries of the wind. Life is uncertain. When we learn to go with it, life changes. You are a perfect example of that. After a devastating "letting go", in your grief you were swept up by the most glorious rush of life. That would never had happened had you not been able to let go.
DeletePoetic, Debby!
DeleteThe last one is a beauty.
ReplyDeleteStorm Amy is ripping our leaves from the trees before they have had a chance to change colour. I hope enough remain to give us an autumn display like yours.
ReplyDeleteIt's good that you capture the transient beauty of fallen autumn leaves. People take them for granted but each fallen leaf is can seem like an accidental work of art - especially when illuminated by sharp autumn sunshine.
ReplyDeleteA lovely sight..not so much of the deep colours up here as we had less of the hot weather to develop the sugars that give the colours as the temperature drops
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful chronology. I could do without the bird poop.
ReplyDeleteAppreciating wondrous beauty in little things is a gift to be cherished and developed. (I'm in purple prose territory today.)
ReplyDeleteAutumn leaves are absolutely beautiful aren't they.
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice series of leaves. Art everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI have always loved fall leaves too. Here in Virginia a few are starting to yellow, but we have a ways to go before the full color comes out. PS: I love the photo of Olga in the sidebar!
ReplyDeleteI love leaf pictures. I always look for the best ones to paint (I'd pick the one in your hand) -- something I do every year, remembering Vivian's blog and tutorials. We're starting to change here too, but it has been so dry, I'm not sure what the colors will be like. We'll see.
ReplyDeleteThey are getting colorful. Are those all from the same kind of tree? And what tree?
ReplyDeleteNo, it's a mix, though most of them come from a single stretch of Finchley Road. I think they're maples and sweet gum trees.
DeleteOurs aren't changing too much just yet but I'm ready for it. Love the colors.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding Captures - Mother Nature Knows How To Entertain Us All Right - Enjoy The Weekend Brother Man
ReplyDeleteDance On ,
Cheers
Beautiful, Steve. Amazing what we see when we slow down and look.
ReplyDeleteI love to see the leaves changing color. Have you read the book, "The Hidden Life of Trees: the illustrated version" by Peter Wohlleben? I found it fascinating and think you would like it, too. You won't look at trees the same way after you read it.
ReplyDeleteNot Steve, but I've put it on hold at the library, thank you.
DeleteI haven't read that book, though we have it in the library! Hopefully one of these days!
DeleteThe last photo is colorful but one wonders about what is going on with the photosynthesis process. Obviously a small part of the leaf is still active.
ReplyDeleteThe process is fading.
DeleteI never tire of leaf photos. (It's like me and photos of our pond. I'm sure others get tired of them.) Our peak doesn't come until mid-November, so let me enjoy yours along with you.
ReplyDeleteI love beautiful leaves, their shapes and colours, and have to stop myself from collecting them all as I find them on my walks. Actually, I have collected a few of different shapes and colours during our recent holiday and dried and pressed them in my diary while we were there. Now these leaves, together with three shiny conkers, adorn the top of the shoe cabinet in my tiny hallway.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I like your new sofa, and I really love the rug - it works in your living room because it is the boldest pattern and colour in the room. if you had a boldly patterned wallpaper, in combination I guess it would be too much.
DeleteThanks on the couch and rug, Meike!
DeleteYou can never take too many leaf photos!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love the multi-colored or bright red/orange leaves. I also take too many? just enough? photos of them. :)
ReplyDeleteWe won't see this for two or three more months. I love seeing them change too.
ReplyDeleteYour photos simply pay tribute to nature's artistry.
With all 3 of our trees gone now we don't get the shade but we won't have the leaves to clean up anymore.
ReplyDeleteVery Canada
ReplyDeleteI love the red and gold Fall colors. It is early, yet you are seeing more color than I am seeing in Massachusetts.
ReplyDeleteThe second photo is artsy, painterly. Interesting
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