Fall Color, Right Near Home

When I got back from my bike ride today, I was standing in the driveway looking around and there seemed to be a lot of fall color.  I saw two trees further down Laurel Avenue and I shot a few frames, then I walked over to the side yard and saw this magnificent tree to the north of us across the street, but easily visible because there is a hill to the north of us. I took a few photos from my side yard, but there were wires in the photograph.  So when I went down to the street, and up the hill a bit I had a clear view that included beautiful blue sky and even a bit of cloud.  Perfect!

 

Is Anyone Awake?

I ride the subway all the time in New York, but the last thing I would do on the subway is fall asleep!  Of course I am only liable to be traveling for less than half the length of Manhattan.  From Penn station up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or down to the International Center of Photography.  So that's only likely to be 10 stops or so.  One time I did take the subway out to a barbeque in Brooklyn and that ride seemed to take forever!  But for people who ride daily, I guess sleeping on the subway is OK.

 

Stan at the International Center if Photography

A few times when Stan and I have been to ICP, there have been either extra large or extra small things that are not cameras but look by them.  Each time Stan has picked one up and pretended to photograph me which means that I will take a photograph of him because my camera is always ready.  So that happened today and this camera is furry!  So we had a good laugh over this photograph.

After I  posted the first photograph I went back and I did a search of the blog and found one other time that Stan picked up a fake camera and i photographed him with it!  This is starting to be a nice collectiuon!

 

Caumsett, Four

Back to Caumsett for yet another post, and there will be another one after this, eventually. Once again, the astounding colors of the grasses are the star of this photograph! I just can't get over that beautiful yellow color in the grasses.  I think the grass colors perhaps seem brighter because of the blue sky. On the color wheel, yellow is opposite blue, more or less and when you put them together in the same photograph, one enhances the photo.  Or could.

More yellow.  I hope you are not bored with this.  I had not noticed this, but after mentioning the complimentary colors of yellow and blue, here is the same combination, with the blue coming from the color of the lake.  This really was an amazing and rewarding afternoon trip!

 

Fall Color, Close to Home

I am taking a quick break from Caumsett again.  This morning on the way to Dunkin' at the beach we drove by Scudder's pond and I was surprised by seeing some fall color there.  I am attracted to that silver leaning tree, so that adds something extra to the photograph.  I guess, actually it makes the photograph.  There has been so little around here that just seeing a few trees in full color is a big deal!

 

Caumsett, Three

I was composing this photograph and balancing the arrangement of the dark black tree trunks and the bush on the right.  Suddenly a runner came by me and as he ran into the distance and got smaller and smaller I rapidly clicked away.  I like him this size so he is there but is not a dominant part of the photograph.  Not a lot of fall color in this photograph.

I found this brilliant red leaf on the trail and picked it up.  I wished it was a perfect leaf, but of course it is not.  So I was thinking just forget about this, but I photographed it anyhow.  Then afterwards decided that so many things in the world are not perfect, and this leaf does show us how brilliant the fall colors can be.  So here it is, beautiful in its imperfection!

 

Caumsett, Two

Fall color, more or less, I guess.  It's funny because in some places it looked way past peak color and in others many of the trees were still shades of green.  There is some color here but nothing really spectacular I think.  But I shot it because most of the trees we can see have some color.  I did a search and discovered that the best fall color depends on rain maybe in August or something but then very little rain in September and October. But that was not the case for us this year, so, mostly subdued colors.

So two for one here.  These brilliant red berries really stuck out as I walked by this tree with dried out brown leaves.  Want to guess the type of tree?  I was surprised...  It is a Flowering dogwood!  The ripe berries serve as an important food source for songbirds and other wildlife moving through in the fall.  And it brightened my day to see them in the bright sunlight against the yellowish leaves of trees in the background.