Musings on Autumn This Year
I live in a place in this world that has four seasons, though, like many such places, those seasons are far from equal. The heat of summer intruded far into autumn’s given space this year. Earth’s transit around the sun left evidence of the shorter days that herald winter... it just took a while before it was cool enough to notice that it actually was fall. We expect vivid hues, slowly falling leaves evicted by the wind, harvest of apples and pumpkins, nippy mornings and warm days. There’s also a sadness to the season as it bookmarks shorts and flipflops to coats and mittens. Like so many others, I look forward to fall setting the oven of summer down from its steady roast, and I hope for a little velocity of time... bring it on! Yet when fall arrives, I wish to be able to dial down that speed somewhat to savor the season. Regardless, time flies, and seemingly more so in the fickle season of autumn. The prolonged summer heat made setting a camera in front of some decent color even more erratic this fall, and time was working against me.
Who doesn’t love a good Easter egg hunt? I love the beach at Topsail Island for just that reason… I’ve found more fossilized shark’s teeth there among the scattered and broken shells than any other beach. I’ve been there with a crowd and have walked away with more tooth treasure because I have an eye for it. This year, with color coming in so late into the mountains of western North Carolina, I tried to put those skills into finding compositions of brilliant fall color. A rainy day in my time there last week had me chasing waterfalls. Here, I polarized the reflected sky from the foliage to show the rich autumn tones over Dry Falls when so much around it was just so many varying shades of green. “Easter eggs” are harbingers of yet another season, though the hunting concept does seem to work in fall. What do you think?
Musings on Autumn This Year
I live in a place in this world that has four seasons, though, like many such places, those seasons are far from equal. The heat of summer intruded far into autumn’s given space this year. Earth’s transit around the sun left evidence of the shorter days that herald winter... it just took a while before it was cool enough to notice that it actually was fall. We expect vivid hues, slowly falling leaves evicted by the wind, harvest of apples and pumpkins, nippy mornings and warm days. There’s also a sadness to the season as it bookmarks shorts and flipflops to coats and mittens. Like so many others, I look forward to fall setting the oven of summer down from its steady roast, and I hope for a little velocity of time... bring it on! Yet when fall arrives, I wish to be able to dial down that speed somewhat to savor the season. Regardless, time flies, and seemingly more so in the fickle season of autumn. The prolonged summer heat made setting a camera in front of some decent color even more erratic this fall, and time was working against me.
Who doesn’t love a good Easter egg hunt? I love the beach at Topsail Island for just that reason… I’ve found more fossilized shark’s teeth there among the scattered and broken shells than any other beach. I’ve been there with a crowd and have walked away with more tooth treasure because I have an eye for it. This year, with color coming in so late into the mountains of western North Carolina, I tried to put those skills into finding compositions of brilliant fall color. A rainy day in my time there last week had me chasing waterfalls. Here, I polarized the reflected sky from the foliage to show the rich autumn tones over Dry Falls when so much around it was just so many varying shades of green. “Easter eggs” are harbingers of yet another season, though the hunting concept does seem to work in fall. What do you think?