Here it is, the last week of September, and this is what my apple tree is up to:
Nikon D5100 f/8 ISO 200 1/250 sec 55-300@300 mm – Autumn 2012
These are a result of those beautiful apple blossoms last August. Now it is a real race; will the apples ripen first? Or will the frost prevent their maturation? It is all endlessly fascinating to me 🙂
Moving as silently and smoothly as she can, trying to hide…
Nikon D5100 f/5.6 ISO 800 1/250 sec 55-300@300mm – Autumn 2012
She is still pretty sure I see her.
I saw a flicker of movement under a log by the pond, so I moved the log.
A small snake was revealed. He held very still while I tried to ease closer. My movements startled two toads, which leaped over the snake… The snake was more concerned with hiding from me than with finding breakfast, so nothing happened. All remained very still.
Can you just feel it? Â Cool, crisp air, early morning sunlight warming your whiskers…
Nikon D5100 f/4.8 ISO 400 1/350 sec 55-300@120 mm – Autumn 2012
What better time and place for your morning bath?
The summer was so dry in Oklahoma that we were worried we wouldn’t have any leaves left by autumn.
Nikon D5100 f/5 ISO 400 1/350 sec 55-300@170mm – Autumn 2012
You can see for yourself, there are still a few leaves, especially on tough trees like these Hackberries. Wait! There is a hackberry tree growing around and above this one, but these leaves are those of the native wild plum.
While this is a portrait of Blaze, Bridger’s POA (a Pony of the Americas – basically an Appaloosa in miniature), it is also an afternoon flashback, to a time when the grass was green. To when there was grass to be green! In the past we would have noticed Blaze’s eager expression, his black and white and pink coloring, his ratty old halter… This time when we saw this photo, Bridger and I both thought, “Wow, look how green that grass is!”
Blaze - Study in Black & White & Green - October 2010
We know Blaze and his buddies join us in hoping La Nina will relent and we will soon see green grass growing in the pastures.
Grass bowing to Autumn’s royal progress
Golden sunlight limns the delicate structures of grass seed heads
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