Red Leaves and Raindrops: A Photographic Tribute to the Amazing Beauty of Fall!
A bit of a departure from the usual fare today to instead share one of my favorite things: The beauty of nature.
Autumn in here, in earnest. One moment it is storming and pouring down rain; the next the sun comes out.
The Japanese maples by our driveway are in the height of their "turning colors," which is just a breathtaking display!
True, as above, under dense cloud as well as in bright sun.
The interesting thing about these trees is that the leaves are anywhere from green to deep red, all at the same time.
Once the rain stops, you have to be quick, because the winds dry off the leaves very quickly.
It's difficult to capture the sheer richness of the color in a photograph.
Sometimes, the droplets will cling to the edge of the leaf for a while... before falling.
Meanwhile, the Big Leaf maples are also dropping their leaves now. When the sun comes out, the leaves already on the ground look like tiny "flames" or mountain peaks.
I try to capture the images when they are backlit, and you can see their internal structure. There's a whole little world in there!
For me, it's a great reminder that these are living things, with their own circulatory systems. We're pretty much all made of the same stuff!
If we get in close enough, we can start to make out the individual cells.
The Japanese Maples are my favorite, though, with their richness of color, and variations.
A couple more storms, and the tree will be back down to bare branches for the winter.
Is fall really my favorite season?
Well, all seasons are my favorite, in some way... there is such magnificence and beauty in nature, and such variety.
Before we know it, we'll get to the next one... this next photo is from a few years back, but I still wanted to add it, as a reminder of what comes next!
But for now, I shall enjoy the rich colors of fall, while they are here. I hope you enjoyed them, too!
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great week!
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Wow, very extraordinary portrait.
Thank you...
You're Welcome 😊
Such gorgeous rich color! A beautiful post! I loved the raindrops.
Thanks! It was just a particularly beautiful moment, with the red leaves, rain and then sudden sunshine.
The leaves have barely started to turn here which is highly unusual, the majority of the leaves are still on the trees. This is the first year ever in my life where I've had my house plants outside not just into October but past the middle of October. That has never happened. I've had hanging baskets that have lasted into October, I think last year or the year before I had one almost to Thanksgiving still out there in bloom. Today though despite no threat of frost from the newscast in sight yet I decided to finally bring them in. We are going to drop in temps for a few days then back into the sixties but no warning of frost. I already did my usually wash and old english on the woodwork and changed my living room around for the influx of plants to come in so I was ready despite the urge to see how long this recording breaking event would go on. I took a shot of those tomato plants growing in the steps a day or so after I mentioned it in a comment, I added the pic of that as it was underneath the jungle of house plants and morning glories gone wild they were hidden underneath of.
Yes, I remember the tomatoes... they seem to have done quite well for themselves!
Thankfully, we only have a couple of houseplants that need to come in; most of the rest are more fragile (like African Violets) and stay inside all the time. Generally our winters here a relatively mild.
I do remember the annual "houseplant migration" from my years of living in Texas; it was mostly warm/hot... but come November there was always the chance for that "Norther" to blow in suddenly and drop the temps into the mid-20's. It was a LOT of work...
My enjoyment of Fall is tempered by my displeasure of what is to follow.
We have been shortchanged on our colors this year. I think perhaps the temps have been too high.
The fall colors have been less than spectacular, so far... it has been warm with no sudden cold snaps. Still, the Japanese maples seldom let us down.
I don't envy you living in snow country!
I enjoy all the seasons of the year. Summer and Spring are the best.
For me, all seasons have their own sense of beauty... but even so I always seem to say that the season at hand is "my favorite."