Monday, November 7, 2011

respite and wonder

early today
later,
 grapes burdening a birch
two moons
slamming into the 
strangeness of
daylight savings gone 
big wind doing it's job
stars in the grass
 prickly like me
 of the many, 
only a few are touched with scarlet
 emptiness
  emptying
 paper on the wind
my precious north woods

17 comments:

  1. it is, certainly, a rude and abrupt change. but you document it all with such grace and generosity.

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  2. Great seedpods... I was bowled over tonight by the incredible orange/pink sky on my drive home. I was ooo-ing and ahhh-ing all the way and storing the colors away in the image-file-memory-box and hope they will come out in paintings soon. The top photo has some lovely mauves in the sky.... November skies are something!

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  3. gorgeous shots (so different from my landscape - so mysterious - so prickly!)

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  4. val, they will, and they will be amazing
    ronnie, i can't wait to meet your so-far-away landscape

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  5. beautiful shots,you have captured the essence of change. my favorite colour time of year.

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  6. thank you jean. lovely to hear that.

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  7. V- so many reminders of winter coming. The photos of the seed pods are beautiful. B

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  8. Beautiful images, there may not be as much colour in winter, but the pale, muted, fading winter light is so ethreal and pretty, you captured it perfectly.

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  9. That's it; that's the turning. Gorgeous.

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  10. thanks, barry, aren't these pods great?
    h.t. winter color makes me so happy
    lynn, thanks. it is turning, after this indian summer, look out!

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  11. that last photo, the reflections with a layer of leaves - i could pause there and reflect for hours.
    and daylight saving for you? haven't you just gone back to normal time? we've just gone into DS for Summer.

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  12. kaite, you're so right. i always get the name for things like this mixed up. i remember a character in a dorothy sayers novel calling it god's time. i've made the correction.

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  13. What beautiful photos. Stopped me in my tracks. You are an acute observer.

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  14. Very precious North Woods it is. Lovely, lovely nature.

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  15. constantly gobsmacked, alice, that's me. my kids will tell you so!
    ramona, it's so amazing here.

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  16. The seed pods were my favorites, interesting balance between bright and muted during this remarkable season. Atlanta is afire with hot colors right now.

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