• leaves,  Plants

    Sumac Leaves in Sunlight

    Sumac Leaves
    Sumac Leaves (I think)

    “The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you’re worrying about whether you’re hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you’re showing up, that you’re here and that you’re finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.” ― Joanna Macy

    And, never worry about what people think of you when they watch you with your camera in hand.

  • leaves,  winter scenes

    First Snow Fall

    Last week it was frost this week it's snow
    Last week it was frost this week it’s snow

     

    We had our first snow fall during the night. Probably need to call it a dusting but it is loaded with moisture. After walking to the coffeehouse I can see the blue sky as the storm moves out east. Reports are that it may increase in intensity as it moves on to the plains. I enjoyed the walk this morning except for the gust of wind that penetrate my clothing.photocrati gallery

  • leaves,  Plants,  poems

    A Quilt for the Ground

    Patterns
    Patterns

    The leaves had a wonderful frolic.
    They danced to the wind’s loud song.
    They whirled, and they floated, and scampered.
    They circled and flew along.

    The moon saw the little leaves dancing.
    Each looked like a small brown bird.
    The man in the moon smiled and listened.
    And this is the song he heard.

    The North Wind is calling, is calling,
    And we must whirl round and round,
    And then, when our dancing is ended,
    We’ll make a warm quilt for the ground.

    Anonymous

  • fall season,  leaves

    Frosty Morning

    Frosted Leaves
    Frosted Leaves

    They predicted the temperature to drop as low as 20 degrees last night but I did not stay up to find out. My covers were nice and warm so I slept in and what I beautiful frost nature gave us. After quiet time I bundled up and came for coffee. It actually was a nice walk with the sun shinning. Here is another image from the Big Leaf Maple I pass by each morning on my walk. Enjoy your weekend!

    No Lightroom processing. Loaded into Polarr and re-sized for the internet. Would appreciate it if you would let me know what it looks like on your monitor.

  • Dewdrops,  leaves,  Plants

    Raindrops

    Morning After the Rain
    Morning After the Rain

    We had a nice rain for the past 24 hours. Refreshing. I discovered this image on my way to the coffee shop this morning. It was shot in jpeg and loaded into an online photo editing tool called Polarr using a Chromebook. I did no editing but saved it as a jpeg file for the  web. I’m just learning some of what it can do. It’s layout reminds me of Lightroom.

  • leaves,  Plants,  quotes

    Natures Creations

    Natures Creations
    Natures Creations

    “The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”

    Rumi

    The biggest percentage of my images from October have been leaves. Evidence I’ve been walking with my head down.  But they are the images I’ve enjoyed the most.