I’m spending too much time inside, lately. A lot of my view of fall has been from the kitchen slider window. I keep expecting to wake up and find all the leaves have fallen off or blown away, but the trees continue to flame out in color. But I’ve escaped the house a few times to get a look at the trees.
I’ve been particularly lazy with charging up the camera and going for a drive to photograph fall colors this year. I don’t know why – I have the time, but I guess I’ve been resisting driving around and wasting fuel if it’s not necessary. So most of what I’ve photographed has been driving from home to the library and back. I’ve resorted to pulling over and using my phone, which is usually fine, but with a cracked camera lens, I tend to get JJ Abrams-type lens flare if there’s a lot of sun.
Tree in flame stage.
Over on the northwest side of Leesburg, the trees started changing rather early. The photo doesn’t do this tree justice – The colors were so vibrant I turned around to go back and get a photo of it. I wish the trees in our yard would change like this, but so far they’re still green.
Beautiful Color on Tree.
This tree was photographed on the southeast side of Leesburg – Again, the camera just doesn’t capture the true brilliance of the colors. It’s a shame that we’ll get a good two weeks of color and then the leaves will disappear. Fall is definitely my favorite season, both for the temperature change and the colors.
Fall trees during an early October morning walk.
Southeast Leesburg again. The oaks are turning brown; the cherry trees along the road all turned yellow and lost their leaves about a week or so ago. Even with the rain and wind, these guys have managed to hold onto their leaves for a little while longer. Soon, with the time change, we won’t even see them in the sunset – it will be too dark to see anything on he drive home at night. While I tend to look forward to the change back to standard time, I’ll definitely miss watching the sunset on the commute home.
Blah, blah, blah – back to writing for me.