The Colors of Autumn

 I love autumn.  Although I am a warm weather girl, the colors (and mostly the temperatures) of early fall (late September through October or early November) is my favorite time of year.  While spring means the peeking of green coming up from the brown earth, autumn is a glorious range of colors as trees and plants shed their leaves and get ready for a winter hybernation.  (Which is what I wish I could do.)  Each and every color is slightly different and beautiful in it's own way.  Their uniqueness is what makes it so amazing.  (Maybe we should realize that in the humanity too?  Just a thought.)

Though I am no photographer (although I wish I was), autumn makes nearly every photo I take look amazing.  And although blog is not a great place to share photos (this platform doesn't do it justice), I'm going for it anyway.

I had the day off in the middle of the week and by the afternoon, the gray skies had turned to blue with an orb of yellow warmth, only slightly mitigated by the wind.  So I headed out and took a walk around one of my favorite places to see the colors.  (By now you probably know where that is) Here is a sampling of what I encountered...



























Just looking at these photos brings me back to that afternoon and makes me feel good.  It's not the power of my photography skills (again, I don't have them...I wish I did), it's the power of nature.

I encourage you to take the time whenever you can to soak up the beauty of the nature around you (whatever that might look like) this autumn.  Take it all in.  Breathe it in.  Enjoy it.  And care for it because in caring for the natural world around us, we are taking care of ourselves.

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