Friday, November 16, 2007

Paying attention to autumn

The trees around here have put on quite a show this fall.
I haven't seen colors like this
south of New Hampshire or Vermont
or perhaps anywhere:
rich eggplant, rosy pomegranate, carrot, cantaloupe,
apricot, lemon, and honeydew. The lowliest median strip
glows fuschia or coral. The usual eye-catchers --
4-way stops, detour signs, crossing guards, school buses --
stripped of their usual impact, blend into the insane palette
of a limitless Van Gogh canvas.

I've been photographing our front yard every couple of days.
I'm trying to make a "poor man's time-lapse movie".
This is how it looked one morning last week.

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