On The Last Full Day Of Autumn 2017...

"Autumn that year painted the countrysie

 in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, 

and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies."

~Sharon Kay Penman

Time And Chance

It's the last full day of autumn, 2017.

 And as such, it's not about me, it's all about the leaves...

"The gold and scarlet leaves that littered the countryside in great drifts whispered and chuckled among themselves, or took experimental runs from place to place, rolling like color hoops among the trees. It was as if they were practicing something, preparing for something, and they would discuss it excitedly in rusty voices as they crowded round the tree trunks."

~Gerald Durrell

My Family And Other Animals

I could have sat under that autumn tree forever!

#20 Leaf Of The Day

December 20th 2017

Redwood Road, Castro Valley

Mood: Happy But Quiet

~Me :)  

Delicious Autumn

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."

-Elizabeth Lawrence

It's finally, officially, here. Autumn. Sigh. I have been walking in Tilden Park the last few weeks, to both clear my mind, and capture little signs that autumn was indeed on it's way. It has been gorgeous. I am a strange girl, I can feel all the tension drain from my body, just by spotting the first of new autumn leaves. The red maple is putting on a beautiful show, but I can tell the other trees will soon be following it's example. :) It was rainy yesterday, and the temperatures felt more like winter, then the last day of summer, but I had to smile, because that is what autumn does best, it gives us glances at all the best examples of each season. I love the smell of the air after it rains, it is absolutely intoxicating to me. The blend of cedar, and eucalyptus, and pine, had my head swimming. Is there anything like playing in a big pile of autumn leaves? Ahhhhhhh... life. :)

"Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower"

-Albert Camus

-OndineMonet
"Delicious Autumn"
Tilden Park
Berkeley, California
September, 2007
Afternoon