Screaming Yellow
This post is for rakkity who likes to keep track of fall in New England. Sorry, no heron in the bottom photo. I’m always looking but I guess he or she found another place to feed. The first picture was taken at our local gas station.
I dread the fall because I dread putting layers back on as the trees drop theirs.
But once I’m here, I do love it. I remember hastily rummaging through my purse and snapping pictures out the sun roof of the screaming yellows that I’m sure have never existed before and will never again. I’m touched by the awareness of just how short the flash of color is and I witness the first hint of change, immerse myself in the fullness of the season, and hang onto the very last drab leaf to fall.
Comment by The real Jen — September 26, 2008 @ 11:18 am
Even in the Colorado mountains, far above the maple tree zone, we have fall colors of a different sort. Still higher, in the arctic zone, the alpine meadows glow in ambers and ruddy browns beneath the icy buttresses. Autumn is one of the most wonderful seasons to hike in the Rockies.
Comment by rakkity — September 26, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Sorry! Those links should have been fall colors and arctic zone.
Comment by rakkity — September 26, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Oh! Truly spectacular. Thanks rakk.
Comment by The real Jen — September 26, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
rakkity: What was your date, time, and direction in “arctic zone”? Because I can’t tell if that’s a waning gibbous moon setting (at a funny tilt) in mid-morning, or if the photo is reversed, left/right, and it is afternoon with a waxing gibbous moon rising — or it’s not the moon at all.
Comment by la madre de to[th]os — September 26, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
That was a stupid name to sign-off with. Sorry. I got so flustered by thinking I’m apparently not the “real” Jen (although I did figure out what you meant, Jen).
Comment by jennifer — September 26, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
That’s not the moon. Maybe it’s a bit of cloud, a defect in the CCD, a fingerprint on the lens? I’m not familiar with the camera — I lost my newer one on a trail last week, and dug an old one out of the closet for yesterday’s hike. I stopped using it because you can only get 15 to 20 pictures before it burns out a 4-cell battery pack, and the viewing screen is too dark to see. It does take decent pictures, though, except for inexplicable moon-like artifacts, that is.
Comment by rakkity — September 26, 2008 @ 9:51 pm