Showing posts with label Autumn Leaf Of The Day #13. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #13

 



“November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights.”

~L.M. Montgomery,

This autumn's November, has leaves that are much more muted than in previous years, but there are also trees making a big show of the bright vivid colors hiding among it's other less showy colored leaves. Dogwood trees do that, as do Liquid amber, but I can always count on a particular tree, in Cull Canyon park to provide these lovely shaped yellow leaf clusters. They go from a dull greenish color of summer, to this bright, happy, Meyer lemon color. I wish I knew the name of the tree. I really need to try harder to learn my leaf identification. Hubby even suggested adding the names of the tree the leaves come from, to my leaf portraits next autumn. Good idea! But I better start learning them, beginning on the first day of winter!



Saturday, October 04, 2025

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #13

 

“I love the autumn—that melancholy season that suits memories so well. When the trees have lost their leaves, when the sky at sunset still preserves the russet hue that fills with gold the withered grass, it is sweet to watch the final fading of the fires that until recently burnt within you.” 
 
~Gustave Flaubert,
 
 

 

Friday, October 04, 2024

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #13

 

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” 

~Humbert Wolfe 
 
I love early evening in autumn. It has the most beautiful sound to it. Geese, and other birds coming in to roost for the night, and leaves falling from the trees that are easier to hear, because all the human sounds begin to wane. I love October evenings. And at the end of the month, all of it comes together with the sound of children trick-or-treating. These are very happy sounds, and very rare.




Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #13

 

“The leaf does not immediately absorb the drop of water falling on it;
 she slowly drinks with great pleasure!”

~Mehmet Murat ildan