A Walk in the Woods

There are days so lovely and golden that we hope they will remain gilded in our memories forever, that we may take them out to enjoy on those colder, darker days when hope seems slim and stingy. Yesterday was one of those days here. Our trees turn color later than most of New England due to the still warm ocean that surrounds us. Of course the slow warming of the ocean in spring is what keeps us from the lovely springs other areas enjoy but we enjoy our falls and try not to think too much about our non springs at this time of year.

 

I have a favorite place I like to go in the late afternoons in late October and early November for that is when the sunlight streams through the yellow and gold leaves of the beeches and hickories.

 

Photographs really cannot capture the warmth and fullness one feels when surrounded by all this glorious color. It is no wonder poets gush....simple words are really inadequate.

 

There's just something about all that orange and blue that makes my heart go pitter patter...

 

All that yellow and green playing together....

 

Even the oaks are beginning to join in the color parade. This scarlet oak is not common in our area but for some reason is common in this particular woodland. It is redder than other local oaks. Our other red trees such as swamp maple have already lost their leaves but the oaks will end the season with their deeper reds and rusty browns.....

 

Speaking of rusty browns....here's someone practicing a little camouflage.

Comments

[Suki]

lovely leaves and Arlo is such a sweety.

[fourdogday]

Great pictures Mary and that pup of yours is so darn cute. Our son went to college in Winona, MN....to get there you drove over a bridge that spans the Mississippi. The MN side was all huge bluffs covered with trees. The first soccer game we drove to in the fall....I was in awe. You are coming over that bridge and those bluffs get closer and closer and they are covered with the most gorgeous colorful trees...it honestly would just take your breath away.