Fall Foilage Contest

[AmazingGrace]

well for those who are saying that fall comes later for them... I could protest if I wanted too... because see here in TX we have a week of fall a week of summer and week of winter and then start all over again... and this happens year round... my trees drop leaves in August and it snows in November! So who knows what season it is here anymore LOL

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Theresa

I really love number three. I could lose myself to that setting forever.

Very contemplative.

[Felicity]

Beautiful pics! To me, the most beautiful colours are where there are lots of Maples (like here in N.B.) Then you have that brilliant red!!! So absolutely amazingly beautiful!

I'm so thankful I live in a place where we have 4 distinct seasons with all the accompanying wonderfulness that goes with each!

[Nahum]

[jezebelslayer]

Originally Posted by tamor

Yes, and it's football time in Tennessee!!!

And the orange stuff in Tennessee is just GATOR BAIT!


Sorry I just couldn't help myself.

[Blubayou]

Ok- I will dig up some of my other pics and put them on the computer. I have some great fall pictures of the aspens in NM I took several years ago.

[jezebelslayer]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

I will hold the contest open until Ocotober 25th.

I still can't play...in south Florida we don't have fall

BUT we don't have winter either.

[Felicity]

Where's Maple Leaf?!! He usually has some absolutely stunning pictures to post from one of the most beautiful areas of God's awesome, brilliant, magnificent, gorgeous creation.

And my home!

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Ferd

Dont have any pictures.... but here is a word picture for you.


October Maples, Portland

The leaves, though little time they have to live,
Were never so unfallen as today,
And seem to yield us through a rustled sieve
The very light from which time fell away.

A showered fire we thought forever lost
Redeems the air. Where friends in passing meet,
They parley in the tongues of Pentecost.
Gold ranks of temples flank the dazzled street.

It is a light of maples, and will go;
But not before it washes eye and brain
With such a tincture, such a sanguine glow
As cannot fail to leave a lasting stain.

So Mary's laundered mantle (in a tale
Which, like all pretty tales, may be true),
Spread on the rosemary-bush, so drenched the pale
Slight blooms in its irradiated hue,

They could not choose but to return in blue.

Richard Wilbur

Lovely, Ferd!

I love Fall until about November. Then it often turns kind of dreary. Temps drop, trees are stripped bare, and the world turns kind of grey.

Until ....... until the first snowfall!

[RandyWayne]

Our backyard -in the Fall! Most beautiful "Fall" pic I have ever seen!