Autumn Leaf Of The Day #86

"When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn."

~V. V. Brown

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #82

"Nothing in the universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very, very long, travelers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves." 

~Mehmet Murat ildan

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #69

 

"The torchlit garden was redolent with the colors and scents of autumn... gold and copper foliage, thick borders of roses and dahlias, flowering grasses and beds of fresh mulch that the air pleasantly pungent."

~Lisa Kleypas

It Happened One Autumn

 

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,

 Anne of Avonlea

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!

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #20

 

“Autumn is a season of desperate hopes. The leaves are souls begging to turn life on pause. Begging to stop, begging to take a break, hiding under smiles and childish words.” 

 
~Teodora Savu,

  Listen to the Leaves

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #59

 

“The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves.

 A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”

 
~Erin Morgenstern,

  The Night Circus

 

 

A World Full Of Beautiful Adventures

Cull Canyon

Castro Valley, California

October 26th 2017 

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

~L. M. Montgomery

Anne Of Green Gables

October is almost over, but it isn't going quietly! It's singing loud with color, especially in the last week or so! I think he have hit the top of the season, and while I have captured a lot of golden lemon drop leaves, I think the deep reds and purples are winning the competition, for the most beautiful of the leaves! But keep in mind, I haven't been to Nevada yet, and there is still amazing beauty to find!

"October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles."

~Sarah Guillory 

Reclaimed

Tilden Little Farm

Berkeley, California

 #27 Leaf Of The Day

October 27th 2017

Tilden Little Farm

Berkeley, California 

Mood: Happy

~Me :)

 

Withered Autumn Leaves In 3 Versions...

"A withered maple leaf has left its branch

 and is falling to the ground;

 its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight.

 Isn't it strange? 

The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the

 gayest and most vital of creatures?"

~Ivan Turgenev

Fathers And Sons

Every once in a while I like to put one of my photos through the enhanced filters I have available in my photo editing software, or my favorite photo editing site... Ribbet. Here we have an example of one of my photos if it were done in watercolors, rather than as a photograph. I really like this version, and it makes me wonder why I don't convert my photos more often? I have also planned to do some paintings of my photos. I have the easel right here, and a lot of paints, yet something stops me every winter from getting my act together, and doing that painting! Maybe this will be the year. Shrug. I kinda hope so, or even better yet, maybe Alan and I can finally do that couples painting we have been promising to do. That sounds like fun too! You know, a little procrastination makes for missing a lot of fun! And for what? Wasting time? It's not like I am getting younger... like the leaves... I SO not getting any younger! LOL. But I am doing quite nicely at withering away... LOL.

(Original)

(Cool Tone)

So tell me, which one of the three versions do you like best?

Leaf Of The Day

November 21st 2015

Mood: Happy

~Me :)

Such Days Of Autumnal Decline

"Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods."

~Charles Nodier, Smarra: &Trilby

Leaves As Flowers

I always feel a bit melancholy when I see a tree begin to go bare. I swear, just a week ago that tree was glowing with bright yellow leaves, so bright and delicious, you almost could imagine the leaves were actually lemon drops. But now it is only reminding me that autumn will once again end, and take the colors with it. And really, almost nothing makes me sadder.

Mood: Quiet

~Me :)

Waiting For Aspens

"Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface."

~Kaya McLaren, How I Came To Sparkle Again

This photo is obviously from my archives, but hasn't been posted before. I hadn't posted it because it was a little blurry, but I was looking at it the other day and for whatever reason I just kind of felt warm inside when I viewed it. It's been a long time since we have visited Cisco Grove, but maybe we can remedy that! We found this stop one autumn day, while on our way to Reno, Nevada. It's about a 3 1/2 hour drive from our house to Reno, and this stop sits, tucked off from the road, a little more than half way through our journey. It's one of the prettiest places along the route to stretch your legs and take in the natural beauty... no matter what time of year, but I bet you can guess when I enjoy it the most! That's right! Autumn! The Aspen trees are nothing short of breathtaking! Alan usually has to pull me away when it's time to leave because I could literally sit all day and just watch the bright yellow leaves fall slowly silently to the earth. I think I might be longing for autumn this year more than in any other year in the last decade! I wish it would hurry up come! LOL.

Cisco Grove Aspens In Previous Years...