Dew on leaves

Or raindrops. It’s all much of a muchness.

Ice shadows

Some last pictures of the snow before it melts.

Autumn leaves and water

‘Tis the season for fallen leaves on water.

Shadows on leaves

Autumn is nearly here; leaves are starting to fall.

Green. Very green.

I’m not absolutely sure, but I think the tree with these leaves is a catalpa of some kind. At any rate, it’s sending up some new leafy growth at the moment, and they’re surprisingly brown compared to the older leaves. The opposite route from that most leaves follow.

Birdie leaves

This is a photo from a couple of weeks ago when one of the maples in the front yard was just putting out new leaves. I was startled by how much the pairs with the sheathes looked like little birds, all alert and ready to fly.

More reedy things

The red reed-like things are in planter boxes by a residential development—I was struck by the colour combinations that had obviously be carefully chosen for winter foliage. 

Leaves making ripples in the stream

I tried to crop these three photos to squares, but they insisted on remaining in a vertical format. Pictures can be stubborn that way. 

Green and yellow-orange

More photos from a few weeks ago.

Maple (leaf) squares

I don’t have a camera that takes square photos, but I do like to see what happens when you take a section of an image and put it into a square format.

Ginko and maple leaves

This ginko leaf fell onto the red Japanese maple leaves. I like the effect.

Red and green

Green gunnera, fallen red maple leaves. The colours have almost hit the point where they vibrate against each other.

Big.

Broadleaf maple leaves, that is. Just in case I hadn’t mentioned it.

Gold and brown

I do like broadleaf maple leaves in the fall. They’re so extravagant.

Unseasonably green

That’s because the photo was taken quite a while ago. It’s been so grey and wet and generally grey that I thought it was time to pull out a photo from a different season.

Smoky green

The leaves of one of our Japanese maples are turning from green to red. The interim stage is a fascinating smoky colour, dark and rather sullen.