“The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold.”
~Johnny Mercer
Autumn Morning
Be Yourself
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.”
~ George Eliot
Collective Spirit
Bold and Beautiful
It Ain’t Easy Being Green
“Spades take up leaves / No better than spoons, / And bags full of leaves / Are light as balloons. / I make a great noise / Of rustling all day / Like rabbit and deer / Running away.”
~Robert Frost
No words. Just in awe. 🙂
Thanks, Andrew. We are on the same wavelength. Glad you like them. 🍁
We are indeed. They are beautiful. My leaf journey is continuing as you will see.
Wow!♥️😍
Thanks, Tanisha! 😊
Great quote and beautiful pictures.
I’m happy you like them, Molly. Thanks so much.🍁
Only you could create such a great post featuring these lovely golden leaves.
Thanks so much, Amanda. Glad you enjoyed it – such fun to compose. This post really caught on. 🍁🍁🍁😊
Incredible
Thank you, ltz. 🍁
Wonderful pictures. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks very much, Xchibz. 🍁
Beautiful❤️
Thanks very much, Shaheen. 🍁
These are beautiful!!
Thanks so much, Liefs.🍁
Marvelous collection here celebrates the crisp autumn I love! Thank you, Jane… and the Eliot quote was spot on.
I’m so glad you like these, Gunta. I love to study these autumn close-ups. Thanks very much.🍁
Wow these are beautiful :0
Thanks so much, Audrey. 😊🍁
Another beautiful series, Jane, the final sights of a wonderful autumn…it is always a bit sad to watch it leave 🙂 All photos catch the spirit of this time of year, and especially like “Be Yourself” ~ it is a good thought to have as winter is just around the corner. Cheers to a great final month of this strange, unforgettable year 🙂
Hi Randall, Thanks very much.
Agree, a bit melancholy to see the season change although it’s happening a bit more slowly in SoCal. Glad you enjoyed these small scenes. We are all just hanging on like the last of the autumn leaves. 🍁
Beautiful pictures!
Thanks, intentionalliving.😊🍁
Beautiful Collection!
Thanks so much, Kriti! 🍁
These photos are amazing!
Thanks so much, 3yellowdaisies!
Pleasure was all mine! 😊
Those pictures are beautiful. Nice autumn for you in California, right? Regards from Prambanan Jogjakarta. It’s a rainy season here. And we’re still at home on this pandemic. So fresh to see colorful leaves.
Hi Martan, Very glad you enjoyed these. A nice autumn but we, too, are staying close to home due to the pandemic. Thank you for your visit here. 🍁😊
Such lovely photography!
I’m glad you enjoyed them, Wind and the Waves. Thanks so much. 🍁
Nice
Thank you, Victoria. 😊
Such a beautiful collection ❤️
Thank you, Mistakesmakeyouclean. Glad you enjoyed. 🧡
Nice. Which country is this? 🙂
Thank you, Dragon. This was shot in the US in California.
Just stunning. Love the quotes as well. Autumn lives in the human spirit.
Thanks very much, Novel. Appreciate your visit and I agree about Autumn.
Wonderful quotes and images! I understand the effort involved in these compositions … to find and frame!
Thanks, Denise. I appreciate that! You know. 😉
Thanks for sharing!
I love the way you took a simple subject and stuck with it, Jane. The progression of the series is very nice, and the titles add a bigger context. If I had to choose favorites it would be the first and third. But they work as a group, all together, and of only our country could do that a little better, too. 🙂
Thanks, Lynn. I sure got lost in these leaf studies. Happy you liked the metaphors. Hope all is well in your world. 🍁🧡
Crazy times, Jane. But we’re hangin’ in. 🙂
The environment is not something around us.
It is us.
What a self centered notion when we ‘think’ of it…
Thanks for this reminder.
Have a great day
Franck
Thank so much, Franck. Glad you enjoyed these autumn moments. 🍁
Wow
So beautiful
Thank you, Luchynwanma. Much appreciated. 🍁
Woow, that’s a nice click !!
Thanks so much, MA!
Beautiful
Thanks, Astha. 🍁
Thanks for sharing!
beautiful
Thanks so much, Elena. 🍁
Great capturing of essence of autumn !!!
Thanks very much, YC! Had fun shooting these. 🍁
Just beautiful!
Thanks, MB. Found these small scenes meditative to photograph. Glad you like them. 🍁
I can hear the crunch of footsteps walking on those piles of leaves.🙂 We had such a long, perfect autumn and it looks like you did, too.
Thanks, Julie. Glad these evoke the feeling of walking in the leaves. Our autumn really just started here in Pasadena with a beautiful turn of the leaves. Appreciate your visit!
These are beautiful! 🍁 🍃
Thank you, Caysirae. 🙂 🍁
Of course, you are very talented! Looking forward to seeing more of your photography 🙂
Very nice pictures of my favorite season!
Thanks so much, Shirley. Glad you like them! 🍁
have to love the one red leaf amongst all the yellow!
Thanks, Andy. I searched for the red ones! Glad you like them. 🍁
I think you may have channeled an old post from 2014, lol. 🙂
https://hiddenlens.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/leaves/
Are you still on fire watch? I read how SoCal Edison turned off the power just in case the Santa Anas blew too hard.
I guess I did, David! Nice shots. No, thankfully the winds died down and it was a non-event. Phew.
This is a soothing post. Thanks.
Thanks, Janie. It was soothing to photograph them. 🍁
This is a fun collection with great captions, Jane.
Thanks, Ellen. Had fun with the captions…glad you like them. 🙂
Oh wow, spectacular golden tonality, texture and composition. Bold and Beautiful is my fav!
Thanks so much, Sam. I was amazed by all of those things once I started getting close to see all the patterns and contrasts of colors. Glad you enjoyed.
Gorgeous, Jane! I love photographing fallen leaves!
Thanks, Terri! They suddenly popped in Pasadena after a cold snap. Glad you enjoyed. (Good luck with your move!)
lovely autumnal palette
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Thank you, Graham. I bet you’ve done leaves with your technique before. 🙂
Hi Jane, I was quite pleased with the end result of this leaf-based one:
https://mandalavihara.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/mandala-164-mothmen-peer-into-the-abyss/
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Love it! Thanks for the link. 🙂
Always delightful beautiful compositions and colours Jane ~ sending you joy hedy ☺️💫
Happy you enjoyed these small scenes, Hedy. Sending you some joy right back. Thanks! 🍁
These are such stylish leaves (I love the green one too though!) and beautifully framed. Are they the leaves of the liquid amber? I enjoyed the captions too. And Johnny Mercer’s ‘Autumn Leaves’ truly is evergreen 🙂
Thanks, Carol. It’s fun to zero in on different leaves- each with their own personality. Hope you left humming his timeless tune. 🍁
You really captured fall with these leaves. Wonderful!
Thanks, David. It was fun to compose these small scenes on my morning walk. Glad you enjoyed. 🍁
Beautiful. Amber 🙏❤
Thank you so much, Amber. (Glad to know your name) Jane 🍁
I like how the orange and warm colors in the leaves images led us into the pop with “It ain’t easy being green” – it had an effect 🙂
Thank you, Yvette. Glad you saw the humor in the little green lone guy. 🙂 Appreciate you stopping by. 🍁
🙂
Super, as always! Bravo, Jane!!! And thank you! 🙂
Thanks, Fabio! Glad you enjoyed this small autumn scenes. 🙂
Super in all aspects, Jane! Have a good week, my friend! 🙂
The beauty is being hold by the amazing photographer, Jane you
You are very kind, Cornelia. I really appreciate it- thanks so much. 🙂
The leaves are just gorgeous Jane! Here we are slowly entering winter, with a chilly 15F at the moment.
Thanks, Maria. Brrr! Stay warm and take care. Hope you’re enjoying your new home.
Thank you!
Beautifully composed shots, Jane, but the one titled “Collective spirit” really has captured my imagination!
Thanks very much, Dries. I thought that was a cool shot. Glad you enjoyed!
Very beautiful photos Jane. I like fall through your lens.
Alison
So nice to read, Alison. Thanks! 🧡🍁😊
SImple words and beautiful images. You have captured the season with excellence and elegance! PS … sent you an email.
Thank you, Frank! 🍁😊
Wonderful fall captures, Jane!
Thank you, Belinda! 🍁
Love the images. Love the quotes. Love the post. 🙂
I’m so glad, Steve. Thanks very much. 😊🍁
Perfect !
Thanks, Bruce! 🍁
truly beautiful examples of autumn.
I’m glad you enjoyed these, Jude. Thank you so much.
Love the poem, and Bright and Beautiful grabbed me, but I could be seduced by any of the others. 🙂 🙂
I’m so glad you enjoyed these, Jo. Thanks very much. 😊🍁🍁
Beautiful images Jane 🙂
Thanks, Joe. We’re both in autumn mode. 😉🍁
Every photo a joy to behold.
Thank you, Paula. That means a lot.
Beautiful images, Jane. I love that old Johnny Mercer song too. 😃
Thanks, Sylvia. Have been singing it today. 🙂
A lovely stillness to these shots, Jane. Rest and dormancy. ❤
Thanks, Eliza. They were calming to photograph.
Beautiful collection, so vibrant and lovely fall colors!
Glad you like these autumn moments, Angela. Thanks! 🍁
Fall’s beauty truly shines through your marvellous photos. And the quotes describe this colourful season so well, Jane.
Hi Peter, I was so taken with the dew and leaves carpeting the ground. Nature’s small wonders. Glad you like the quotes as well. Thanks very much.
Your post leaves a good impression of fall foliage.
Thank you, Steve. Glad you’re impressed. 😄🍁🍁
Beautiful photos! Autumn is just an incredible season!
Thanks very much, Digital Wonders. Agree, it is a most beautiful time of the year! 🍁
Oh those piles of colorful leaves take me back to a childhood spent raking them into the highest pile only to jump into them and scatter them everywhere!
Hi Linda, Yes! They do bring back those fun childhood memories being covered in leaves. So glad these brought those days back to you. Thanks! 🍁🍁🍁
Beautiful
Thank you so much, Athira. Glad you enjoyed.
Always welcome Jane..Yes I really enjoyed
Wow !
Glad you enjoyed, Picpholio. Thanks so much. 🍁