This is my backyard this weekend. The amazing foliage season this year seems to go on and on with the past few days bringing an eye-dazzling array of golden shades, filled with sunlight. Yes, that is my solar-powered clothes dryer.
The maple in my front yard bordering the woods has always seemed to go straight from green to brown. This season, the leaves have metamorphosed into a shade that would take Rumpelstiltskin's breath away.
The milkweed pods are bursting at the seams in an effort to send their progeny floating into the world to dream, during winter's dead time, of life in spring.
With its leaves mostly gone, the bittersweet reveals the lovely contrasts of colors that had been hidden beneath them.
The colors are still so vivid that the red euphorbium is startling against the yellow maple leaves. We got a huge rainstorm on Saturday that I thought would have cleared out all of the pretty leaves but it seems that New England trees, like New Englanders themselves, are made of hardy stock.
Like a shimmering, cascading waterfall, this maple displays her glorious fall tribute.
Thank you for taking a walk in my yard with me today. If you’re like my daughter who was home from college for semester break this past week, crunching through piles of leaves and kicking them as you go (not to mention jumping into huge piles of them) is as much a part of fall as carving pumpkins or Thanksgiving. She’s going back to school this afternoon but first we’re heading into the house for some ice cold apple cider. Join us in a glass or two!
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Great pix!
I love that waterfall shot, too... almost surreal.
Nora, thanks. We had a great time going out and looking at the piles of leaves in other yards, too.
ocular, thank you, and isn't it fun?
Pilgrim, maybe it's a state of mind?
Thanks, Kent, the solar dryer is a small thing, but an important one. And that tree in the last shot really does mimic a waterfall, doesn't it?
FLW, that's so true, true, true. And I'm grieving now because my girl has gone back to school.
Michael, it's the right time of year that you can sit outside and watch the leaves lazily drift down. I think I'll enhance that with an Octoberfest brew later.
I'm consistently amazed this year, every time I think we're done I find another spot where trees are still showing off.
I just hope this doesn't mean we're in for a wicked winter. That would suck. ;-D
Thumbed. Gorgeous shots, Nancy.
Merwoman, thank you. The whole outdoors looked like it was glowing this afternoon.