Industrial Architectural at Sunset

At 44 degrees it seemed a bit too cool to do a bike ride this afternoon, so I decided to do my walk down to the old power plant, which is now demolished.  The walk is 2.7 miles and I do that in an hour, plus stopping times to take photographs.  This is part of the power system down there that is still running.  It is a gas turbine "peaking plant" and it starts up later in the day when electric usage goes up, both in summer and winter.  Today, with the setting sun on the wall and the stacks from the turbine, and seen against the leaden sky, I thought it was quite beautiful, in its way.

 

The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn

There was a conjunction in the sky this evening, involving the crescent Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn (going from lower right in the photograph to upper left.)  Saturn is the faintest dot.  I went down to the beach at 5:15 and photographed for about half an hour.  It is such a spectacular thing to see - I hope some of you got to witness this in person.  There is something about something this beautiful that says to me "This is how the universe works."  What makes this photograph interesting are the Sycamore trees all along shore road that have such distinctive shapes.

 

No Dunkin' Donuts - Week 37

I was definitely not looking forward to something to shoot at our Dunkin' Donuts at the Beach day.  The beach is empty now and it is just us and the birds.  I think I have already posted photographs of seagulls.  So I thought I would bring my extreme wide-angle lens for my Canon T7i and I figured that I could make an interesting photograph of the snow fence that was different from last week's image.  So here it is.  It helps that the sky is threatening.  We thought we might get rained on, but the few sprinkles stopped.  It was cold and there was a breeze off the water, so we hurried through out coffee and donuts and then bailed out.

 

Yellow Leaves, and Then None

My second favorite tree where we live, is this Hickory tree in the front yard.  It becomes spectacular in late fall when all of its leaves turn a stunning yellow, as you can see here.

We had strong winds last night, and when I went out to get the newspaper this morning, every single yellow leaf was off the Hickory tree!  Such a dramatic change in the landscape.  But it is the cycle of seasons that matters to me - I have lived my life here in the northeast and my life is connected to the cycle of the seasons.

 

Looking at Leaves

So I showed you all the driveway covered with a billion leaves.  (I wonder how many leaves there are in the driveway actually.)  Hmm...  Maybe if I marked off a square foot, and then counted the number of leaves in that, then I could extrapolate that to the size of the driveway.  Maybe I will do that next year.  I took the Nikon with the closeup lens out to photograph the leaves more closely.  This photograph of the leaves on one of the front steps grabbed me.  I like that because the steps are gray, the leaves stand out more from the background.  There is something I like about this photograph - maybe the color scheme, that I can't explain.  Oh well...

The Subtle Colors of Fall

I like that I am out shooting the landscape again.  I have been photographing architecture and some other things, so it is nice to go for a long walk, and see and photograph the harbor.  I love the fall colors at the beach - colors are more subtle, and I like that.  The bright green marsh grasses turn yellow and brown - the colors of fall.  The harbor and the shoreline are the gift that just keeps on giving!

I Can't Get Down the Driveway!

The driveway is full of leaves!  I can't get down the driveway!  It's like being trapped by a blizzard!  OK, so I can get down the driveway - I just wanted a catchy way to start the blog!  I think it is beautiful to see the whole driveway under the Japanese maple covered with leaves.  Just beautiful.  Of course it is raining so the leaves will get mashed down and won't look pretty at all.  As soon as the leaves are dry I will have to get the blower and clean them all up and bag them.  But they are pretty now.

This is a photograph of the grasses in the garden by our front steps.  I thought they were pretty but I never could have made this picture of them because the background is the driveway.  Only the driveway is covered in leaves now.