Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Leaves and Trees
We live in a woods and everywhere, there are trees. Right now, the leaves are still hiding, but ordinarily, leaves are everywhere. They drift on the wind, pile up and turn to mulch in the gardens and on the deck.
Mist in a January woods
They are golden and fresh in springtime, deep green in the summer, glorious in autumn and become brown and crunchy as winter approaches.
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Categories: #gallery, #Photography, Autumn, Blackstone Valley, Challenges, Nature, woodland, Woods
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Hi Marilyn, glad to discover your blog thru Cee’s mentioning you. I, too, live in tree-covered mountains and am constantly awed by trees – their shapes, colors, functions, intelligence, and beauty. And the details of bark and leaves just throw in more variety and complexity.
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Trees are very alive. I can feel them, especially in spring and fall 🙂
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I love your photos and the trees and shadows stand out. 🙂
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Thank you. I discovered shadows last year 🙂 Before that, I was hunting for sunlight!
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Nature provide us with the most magical scrapbook. Stunning photos.
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In a good year, spectacular! Thank you!
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How exquisite these photos are! Congratulations on being featured!
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Thank you and thank you again 🙂
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Very much my pleasure!
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I especially liked the leaves on the pond in the fall. It reminded of my grandparents home on Packard’s pond in Orange MA. It was beautiful in the fall but quite a mess to try and clean up in the spring.
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Right you are. Gorgeous. Messy. We still haven’t gotten a grip on the leaves from last autumn. Too many trees, millions of leaves! Orange isn’t far from here. They have sky-diving places out there.
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My grandfather was one of the charter members of the Orange Airport back in the thirties and forties! Where were your photos taken?
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Most of the pictures were taken in Uxbridge, many on our property … but a few down around Hyannisport. Garry used to skydive out of Orange Airport 🙂
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Wow! It’s a small world!
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I was just saying that to Garry …
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Congratulations! I have featured your post on Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/13/cees-fun-foto-challenge-nature-animals/
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Thanks Cee 🙂 I love your challenges. It give us all a great opportunity to look deep into those files and find photographs that deserve an airing 🙂 Thanks a million!!
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It’s always a pleasure to be able to feature a friend!
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And a pleasure to BE featured by a friend 🙂
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Such a wonderful collection filled with great colors:)
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Thanks 🙂
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Fall is such a lovely season in New England. I missed it a lot when I left for California. Still do.
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I was away for almost a decade and I never stopped missing it. It is the glory of New England 🙂
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Those pictures are beautiful! I would love to live in the woods like you do… Even though I think living on the beach would win, if I had to choose between the two 🙂 How come the leaves look like it’s autumn, though? Even after the toughest winter they’d sooner disappear all together than turn to this beautiful golden brown, right?
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The autumn shots are from last autumn. If I had a choice, I’d live near the beach and next to, but not IN the woods. But this is the land we own and it is lovely.
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That explains 🙂 Do you really live IN the woods? My “I see a werewolf with an axe behind every tree at night”-crazy mind would not handle that AT ALL… Even though I’d love it during the day xD
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Really. In the woods. Coyotes, but no werewolves (that I know about).
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Wow. I bow down to you, master of the forests. With just a weeeee bit of envy. Still, I’m sticking to my dream-beach-front-house-plan and will just wander into your woods when you post these awesome pictures. Thanks for broadening my world 😉
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WOW! You are right you have some gorgeous trees around you. I’m impressed. 🙂
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During storms it’s more than impressive. It’s scary. I keep waiting for one of them to blow over and land on us 🙂
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the color of the autumn trees is amazing!
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We live for autumn around here. It’s our best — only good — season. Last year was pretty good. Who knew what would follow?
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oh yeah… what a winter!! I have tons of snow photos to remind me! The beauty of fall is spectacular, but I am a lover of warmth and summer 🙂 Did you get any visitors? Hope your day turns out well
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Nope, not yet. Eventually. Everyone really IS busy.
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What beautiful photographs. I used to spend many hours walking on Wenlock Edge in all seasons and in all weathers. Too many people have disengaged from nature.
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We live IN the woods, so disengaging from nature would be impossible, nor would we want to. Except for the billions of oak leaves to deal with and the tons of snow, I love it 🙂
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Nothing like using leaves to mulch the deck. Oh the leaves! Mom and I have been raking and burning left and right. There’s no end in sight!
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The leaves constantly drift. They try mulching the house, too …. attaching themselves to the dogs’ coats and making inroads on our interior. Winter came last year before we beat back the leaves, so they are still waiting. And waiting. I can’t do them, so I hope someone else will give it a go!
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I am wondering if maybe there’s a neighborhood kid that would do it on the cheap? I don’t have nearly as many leaves as you do, but mine are still sitting around composting, too.
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Kids don’t do that stuff anymore. Sometimes one of the kids of our church members will send a son and/or a tractor … like when we were trapped by the ice … but kids don’t do physical labor for spare change. You have to hire a company.
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Well hell. Where I live, there’s always a kid pushing a push mower up the street, looking to make ten bucks. Maybe I’ll send the next one your way. 😀
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I miss those kids! I used to hire them all the time, but I think they all have agents and contracts now.
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Great pictures it is amazing to see the trees changing. It works as a great year round diary as well. Nice One
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Thank you. I guess I should have included full summer and winter … but I couldn’t face anything white and frozen right now … and summer will be on us soon enough.
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Its their destiny.
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We watch them and they watch us.
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