Autumn Scenes Around Home

Autumn is among my favourite times of the year for photography. As I write this post, we’re well into the season and the colours are near their peak for 2022. I’ve been out three times this week, all in different locations seeking to capture those colours.

Three days ago, I awakened to a foggy morning, always a good time for photography of fall colours. The absence of direct sunlight is advantageous, eliminating the “washout” of colour in bright light. I also like the contrast of the soft, misty atmosphere with the vivid colours of the trees, shrubs and grasses.

I took the following pictures around our home, beginning with the area out front, known as the “centre lots”. It pictures the walking path through a copse of aspen trees and some pines.

This next picture features some very green shrub leaves, the last holdout to the change of seasons presently in progress.

We have a very colourful cotoneaster shrub, bounding a back patio. At the time I took this photograph it was in the progress of changing colour. The neighbour’s tree in the background is a larch tree, a deciduous conifer. The fog has muted its usual brilliant orange colour.

I spied this spider’s web on the branch of a tree we have in our from garden. The tree is a sand cherry and this is the usual colour of its leaves. I was fortunate to capture this photo with morning mist on the web. I can’t imagine the spider being active out there for much longer. I guess it’s enjoying the unusually warm autumn weather, while it can.

We have a small park behind our home, surrounded by a woodland. This path leads through the woodland, out of the park to the street beyond. It’s a niece subject for an autumn photograph.

This is a close-up of one leaf on our cotoneaster shrub. I always like to get a photo like this with water on the leaves.

This is a bench placed in the park in memory of a couple named Ashton. The both passed away during the past twenty years and have been remembered with this bench and a plaque that honours their names. We often see parents and grand parents seated on the bench, watching their children and grand children enjoying the playground.

This is another path meandering through the woodland bordering the park.

I picked up one of many aspen leaves that have fallen already and staged it on this boulder for a last photograph. It was quite damp, explaining the moistened area beneath it.

As I mentioned earlier, I also spent time photographing in some other places. Photographs from those excursions will be forthcoming shortly.