Reclining In Autumn

"Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and days were clear and crisp."

~Sharon Kay Penman

Time And Chance

I spotted that cool little recliner, in an earlier version of this photo, but decided not to point it out. I wanted to show the full street, because it might just be one of the most beautiful streets I have ever seen in autumn. Nevada City, California is easy to love, and I am sure we will be going back through the spring and summer. The winter is usually impossible to travel without a 4-wheel drive, but who knows, we might have a mild winter. In any case, the person who puts a recliner in front of their house, in autumn, is someone who truly gets it! And probably understands my autumnal obsession. 

Happiness

 And now...

#62 Leaf Of The Day

November 23rd 2019

Stockton, California

Nikon

~Mood: Happy

~Me  :)

 

Relevance In Autumn/Longing For Winter

"Autumn is the greatest reminder: It reminds us how dreamlike beauties our earh has and it reminds us how all these beautiful dreams can easily vanish!"

~Mehmet Murat ildan

I suppose anything can suddenly vanish. It's happened to everyone. Look what the folks of the town of Paradise went through. They had their homes and businesses in one moment, and it was all gone the next. In the span of a day... or in some cases, only an hour or two. I am lucky to have friends, and I even have the pleasure of making the occasional stranger on Twitter laugh or think, the later tends to be more difficult. Just kidding. That's pretty nice, but will there always be a Twitter to provide a window to the world? Even if it's my decision?

 I am tired. I am lonely in a crowd and Autumn isn't going to last nearly long enough. Sigh. I am beginning to slip into going through the motions of life. I get up. Take care of things. Read a little while. Watch Nicole Wallace. Wander Twitter. Visit whoever pops up. Get ready for Alan. Help prep dinner, unless my Fibromyalgia is flaring. Watch a couple movies with Alan. Edit the days photos. Blog here. Go back on Twitter. Visit some accounts that don't make my head explode late at night. Karen. Joe. Margo. Treat Williams. He seems like a nice man. There is a lot to like about Twitter. But lets face it, Twitter is stressful. Twitter isn't the same because of Donald Trump, and mostly I find myself waiting for Trump to get us all killed by tweet. I wait to die either of embarrassment, or just plain die. So, why am I there?

I don't know. I mean it's been nice finding out Treat Williams is a nice guy, he's only ALWAYS been my favorite actor. Go figure.  Who knew there were nice guys anymore, but let's face it, would he notice if I went missing? Nah. I am one tiny peep, in an international sea of peeping music. Shrug. I just don't know where my peep, peep, peep fits in anywhere. Does it have a specific place? Or am I just one more ridiculous whiny chirp? WHINNNNNNE, Yes, I'm whining, but it's my blog and that's why I began blogging, to clear the head noise as my old friend Penny used to call it. Clearing head noise. I don't know, maybe I am just heading into the darkness of my second favorite season I crave, after the bright leaf singing of autumn. Leaves can be loud, if you listen too long. That's a definite possibility.

Okay. All done. Back to life on Twitter. My head is clear of noise.

I think.

Leaves fall. All autumn leaves must fall.

#61 Leaf Of The Day

November 22nd 2019

Sacramento, California

Nikon

~Mood: Lonely/Quiet/Unsure

~Me   :)

#PhotoByRequest "Final Resting Places" In Autumn

"Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind."

~Lorin Morgan-Richards

This week's #PhotoByRequest subject is "Final Resting Places." I have collected quiet a few different photos of cemeteries over the years, but I want to expand it over this next year. Hopefully next vacation, next October, we will be able to get over to Colma, to the cemetery that Harold and Maude was filmed in, and perhaps the cemetery in Oakland that is the last resting peace of the Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short. But for now, this post contains a few new, and some previously posted. And in one case, not a cemetery, but rather a small rock garden, in front of the home used in Mrs. Doubtfire, in San Francisco, at the base of a beautiful tree, kindly set aside for fans of Robin Williams, such as myself, to remember the man. He was cremated, so we can't visit his grave, so this little space allows us to say, hello and thank you, to a really great artist. Damn I miss him. I will always miss him, but I will also be forever grateful too. Sigh. And every now and again I visit that rock garden, and bring a couple army men, he liked army men. Anyway, on to the photos. 

The Autumn Leaf Of The Day

#60 Leaf Of The Day

November 21st 2019

Nevada City, California

Nikon

~Mood: Quiet

~Me  

San Francisco In The Autumn Twilight

" 'You have a thousand hearts worth of love to give. A thousand tears may fall when one heart breaks. But never cry for shame. He kept my chin in his thick hand. "Even love lost was well spent.' "

~Emma Scott

I loved my city, and I miss it terribly, but going back for visits is delicious and soul cleansing. Twilight on the Bay Bridge usually provides some beautiful scenes, but again, I think I could argue, and win, that it is at it's most beautiful in autumn. Just look at that golden light, and that fog, and oh my, all that love. If you can't fall in love in San Francisco, your heart has given up. There is so much to love. 

 

Not bad for out of a car, doing 65mps! If I do say so myself. Someone once told me that, the best photos you take are always of people, places and things you really love, and if these are any bit good in your eyes, then you now know just how much I love San Francisco!

 #59 Leaf of The Day

November 20th 2019

Nevada City, California

Nikon

~Mood: Quiet

~Me  

Autumn Sundog

"Only what slips through one's fingers, only what is never expressed in words, has no thoughts, exists completely.

 That is the price of proximity: you don't see it.

 Don't know that it's there. Then it's over, then you see it."

~Karl Ove Knausgard

 Autumn 

I spotted this scene from the car, as we drove through Emeryville, on our way to the Bay Bridge last Saturday.The sky all afternoon had a strange green tint to it, with just enough golden color to produce a sun-dog. I love looking for cool things in the sky, so when I saw it I had to smile and continually snap the camera, in hopes I could manage a half decent photo or two. I got really lucky to get both the sun-dog and the plants in focus! Damn I'm good!

 #58 Leaf Of The Day

November 19th 2019

Berkeley, California

Nikon

 ~Mood: Happy 

~Me  :)

My Lovely November...

"My lovely November... 

Have you seen my heart, somewhere

 in your castle of yellow leaves?"

~A Waltz For Zizi

 

 

And if all that beauty isn't enough...

#57 Leaf Of The Day

November 18th 2019

Cull Canyon Park

Nikon

~Mood: Happy

~Me  :)

The Little Autumn Spider Named Elyse

"Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn... that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness... that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling."

~Jane Austen

Persuasion

I was visiting Tilden Park, in Berkeley, searching for a little more autumn to fill me up, when I saw her. A tiny spider. I hate spiders, but she was way to small to take too seriously. just a speck, and I had no heart to harm her. It was cold, as Berkeley is usually this time of November, so I figure she has enough going against her. She was just trying to be her own true self, and hide on a nearly perfect leaf. But we made friends, and I asked politely if I could photograph her, she obliged, and in a little while we both smiled and said goodbye. Before I left though, she whispered to me that her name was Elyse, and I told her my name was Carly, and she promised to write if she got work. I smiled, nodded, and said, take care Elyse, and then I left. I already miss her.

 #56 Leaf Of The Day

November 16th 2019

Cull Canyon, Ca

Nikon

~Mood: Happy

~Me :)