Walk with me back through the yard and field as I pan around the tree line, focusing on a few spots and ending with a distant barn...
Dave at The Home Garden has a great project going: bloggers post pictures of autumn in their area, send him the link, and he posts them so people can see autumn all around the country - even the world! (northern hemisphere, anyway!) I think Southeastern Pennsylvania can hold its head high when it comes to autumn color. These pictures are from a couple weeks ago, before the peak - I've seen amazing views since, but I've been driving! Ah well, there's always next year! These shots are all around Lake Nockamixon. This is what I caught with my dinky little one-step, so imagine how much better it was in real life! As I drove around the last couple of weeks, running my children around and doing my errands, I swooned at many beautiful sights, wishing I had my camera. But one beautiful day last week, when I had a chance to work in the yard, I looked back behind my own house and saw beautiful scenes literally right in my own back yard! Funny how sometimes we look for beauty farther away, and forget to look close to home? I think there's a life lesson in this... Walk with me back through the yard and field as I pan around the tree line, focusing on a few spots and ending with a distant barn... I hope this wasn't too long! I enjoyed it so much that I am going to do another, with close-ups on the beautiful flowers autumn is still giving me in my gardens. (Kathy at Cold Climate Gardening just did this, and it was lovely!) It is a bittersweet season, since it ends in gray and cold, unlike spring which ends in green and warmth. But this project has helped me focus more on what this beautiful season offers than what it does not. Happy Autumn!
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The colors look great! I'll always remember the falls when I was growing up in Western PA. The backroads are so gorgeous and scenic like the photo of the barn you posted. The photos on your property are great too! I like the shed picture looking out to the trees with your cutting garden. Thanks for joining in the Fall Color Project!
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Sarah
11/7/2010 07:26:51 am
Thank you for sharing your gorgeous pics fr Lake Nockamixon and your own back yard. And what a back yard--you are blest!) I don't know if this makes sense, but sometimes fall woodlands are so beautiful they make my heart ache.
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