I hope you aren’t getting sick of my autumn photos… Anyway, I am going to repeat a few posted before, but add new ones. (Note – yes, in that photo at the top, that is how steep my back yard is – in places even steeper…)
All of these were taken in and around Wilton, New Hampshire in the last two weeks.
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Grace glides through water
Fall’s fire flames in trees and pond
Autumn’s tone inspires
Death blooms beautiful in leaves
Colors create thrill in heart
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This was written for Colleen’s weekly poetry challenge. It was a double challenge – first was a photo challenge using a photo which I took several years ago in Milford, MA. (Yes, Colleen used my photo this week :) ) The second was a synonyms only challenge using the words Move and Make. I combined both challenges and wrote a tanka today.
Photo below was from this Saturday and was taken in Wilton, NH.
Morning light strikes gold
Bright rays hit October leaves
Sets forest aflame
Watching from window
A beautiful glowing death
Spellbound in delight
In this cycle we call life
The phoenix must show envy
Written for Colleen’s Poetry challenge. Each week she gives us two keywords, only we must use synonyms only, not the words themselves. However, this week is more of a free run. This week i decided to do both a haiku and a tanka.
Note – the photos, all taken from my kitchen window, are from a couple of years ago – we do not have any color yet.
Bid to last the day
Wind shakes the color from tree
Death plunge of a leaf
A bid to summit
The crackle beneath my feet
Dislodged stone slides down
Autumn hike on a mountain
Tests my feet but frees my soul
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Written for Colleen’s Poetry challenge. Each week she gives us two keywords, only we must use synonyms only, not the words themselves. This week the words were Fall and Try. This week i decided to do both a haiku and a tanka.
Note – the photos are from a couple of years ago – we do not have any color yet.
Another bus full of tourist rips by, the wind causing my car to veer slightly. I wonder at the faces I see pressed to the window. They sit still and watch the world go by, those out of state leaf-peepers, trying to catch a glimpse of red and orange fall through a screen. I have reached my destination and pull off of the road. There are few other cars so I know I’ll have the trail to myself. Another bus roars by, picking up a flurry of color as it passes. I leave the roadside before the last brick red glider settles. It only takes a few minutes before the sound of Man is left far behind. I am now surrounded in nature’s color, taking in the fireworks of the foliage, watching the squirrels play and listening to the wind and the water. In my joy at being alive, I shed a silent tear for those who can only see a bit of fall through the tinted glass window of a tour bus.
The forest burns bright
Trees dressed in golden attire
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I really didn’t have a lot of time for photography this Autumn, but I was able to get the camera out a couple of times and I took a lot of phone pictures. Although I shared some of the phone pictures before, I redid them in Photoshop. In some ways I like the Instagram versions better, but I’ll leave these up as a contrast. Like this picture out of my Kitchen window up in Wilton, New Hampshire.
Did you recognize it? It has been posted before, an early November scene of grey and the last glowing embers of autumn. Continue reading
Earlier in the week I mentioned how beautiful it is right now but how hard it is to get out with a camera. Well, I remedied that by taking a couple of phone pictures out of my upstairs kitchen window. These pictures made me smile ;)
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New Hampshire is gorgeous in the fall people come from all over the country, all over the world, to see the leaves change. This year they came on very slowly, but all at once it seemed like every leaf changed. Usually it’s more drawn out, so the last two days have been spectacular! But…
OK, photography has not been in the cards for the last few days and won’t be again for a few more. And then, I’m like over 1000 photos behind. What I mean is, I have over 1000 photos on my camera that I have not gone through. The are from the last half of the summer and the beginning of autumn. So do I even need to take more pictures? Continue reading
If you remember back to late September and early October I was saying I didn’t think the Autumn colors were going to be all that spectacular. The seemed a little late in arriving and were quite as bold as some years.
That was then. Continue reading
I was on Cape Cod last weekend. As usual, I took a few pictures while I was visiting. There were some of the expected beach pictures, but also some fall foliage pictures, like the one below of the Herring River in Harwich.
I stopped in Milford, Massachusetts on my ride home from Cape Cod on Monday (October 12). I often do this and take a long walk on their excellent rail trail. The difference was, this time I carried my camera. It was a beautiful, sunny day and I think a few of the pictures came out quite well. What do you think?
Back in New Hampshire, I took a short walk up the road from my house on Wednesday (October 14). Some of these pictures aren’t that bad.
Here is the whole collection. Remember to click on them to see the detail – some of these pictures you really need to see full screen! Once you click one, you can scroll through them all. I hope you enjoy a taste of Autumn in New England!
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