Photographs, photography and discussions about it
In a previous post from a few days ago, I mentioned walking back to check on the ferns I’m trying to get started on the woods’ edge behind our home. Overall, I think they are doing okay, but I’ve had mixed results this year, which leaves me a little anxious going into the winter. Two…
Striving to find joy in those things we do. Bonnie’s love for flowers and plants brings her pleasure, making them thrive, as the Meyer Lemon Tree image above shows. I also get enjoyment by photographing her results and then, as in this case, eating whatever wonderful treat she makes with the fruit of her labor….
Bonnie usually grows a fern in a raised pot under one of our front trees each Spring, and then in October, before the first frost, I transplant it to the woods in the back. I did the transplant this year, just before our recent fall road trip to Vermont. I wandered back to the woods’…
We left Oswego, New York, and enjoyed the scenic backroads for two and a half days. Our journey took us south-southwest through New York into Pennsylvania, then south-southeast through West Virginia and Maryland to Virginia, near Richmond. Finally, we headed west-southwest toward our home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Somewhat strangely, autumn colors were only beginning…
Leaving Danby, Vermont, we drove almost directly west across Central New York State, first to Lake George, NY, and then leisurely zigzagged further west. It was an incredible drive showcasing near-peak fall colors, but I felt a bit numb after two and a half days of leaf-peeping photography in Vermont, so not many in-route photos…
These photos were all taken from the yard of the small guest house we stayed in in Vermont (seen in the last image). They differ from the previous Vermont fall photos in this series in that they are a little less documental and perhaps more subjective, yet each says fall to me. As such, I…