Autumn Leaves: carpet of leaves

I've been super busy with projects this week... I look forward to being able to just sit down and relax, preferably in front of some episodes of CSI:NY or Fringe or Bones.

Anyway, autumn is omnipresent, and we've had our first frost recently. This first shot with the carpet of ginkgo leaves — they were actually covered with frost when I took the picture.

It's always interesting when the leaves appear to represent all the colors of the rainbow.

Sidewalk compositions are just artful sometimes : )

Hopefully you're enjoying your autumn & keeping warm.

Autumn Leaves: water droplets

It has been like Indian Summer here lately. And apparently with Indian Summer comes the trappings of summer, warm weather, sunshine... and wind. Yes, there was a tornado warning here yesterday. Oh, Indian Summer.

Anyway, in my travels of sidewalk tourism I have photographed many leaves, and trees, and tree bark (and even the occasional squirrel). And every once in a while (since I am a sidewalk tourist in the morning) I see dew on fallen leaves. There's something about water droplets that is just intriguing.

On a completely unrelated note - my collection "autumnal mood" made the front page of Artfire on Tuesday - whoo-hoo! You can check it out here.

So, I was going to come home from work yesterday and get a bunch of stuff done... and was then reminded that the Fall Festival was going on. Stuff? Who needs to do stuff—especially when people with art & jewelry & fudge are set up in booths 2 towns away?

Yes, I have been to the Fall Festival, I now have more jewelry, some fudge, and some cookies; and I had half an elephant ear. Yes, I am such a sweet child that I gave the other half to my mother.

It was a fun hour. I'm one of those people that condenses fairs & festivals into the swiftest route. Hey, I still saw everything (much of which I actually see every year when I go). I generally always have to work on whatever day the event is happening — no one really schedules these things on a Monday or Tuesday so in theory I could dawdle at a leisurely pace. Yeah, I gotta go home & go to bed to get up for work...

Anyway, I got what I wanted: jewelry & fudge : )

I did take my camera with me, thinking I might take some pictures... but I didn't. I suppose I should have photographed the elephant ear. Anyway, it was windy as all get out. Hopefully no one's booth blew over. There were definitely literally some artisans holding down their respective forts.

I guess Fall is determined to make its presence known.

And in the spirit of fall, I have been rifling through some of my thousands of photos. Last year I had a lot of fun photographing the Japanese Maple...

Japanese maple in red

maple confetti

maple delight


These are available at sarahknight on etsy.

Outside: spring leaves

Some late spring leaves for a change of scenery...

I was out photographing the first irises to bloom, and saw the light hitting the leaves.

This is the rose bush, the only one in the yard. Miraculously, it has not yet been chewed into oblivion by those pesky Japanese beetles.

And this is the smoke bush. When the leaves emerge they're red, and then purple, and then become green. It's kind of like autumn in reverse.

spring moments

Life gets busy sometimes, and when you look back, you really can't remember what you spent that time doing.

Spring, or as it ought to be known - winter lite - seems to have finally ended. Yes, I know, the calendar tells us that summer starts on 21 June. Well, over night we went from running the furnace to opening up the windows and turning on the fans. It's no longer less than 50˚ at night, and I no longer wear my coat to work. It's 70˚ in the morning, and humid as all get out. Yes, we went from winter-lite directly to summer, and that seems to be the way it happens every year.

So, I've been working on photos for my "sarahknight" etsy shop off and on & here and there. Sometimes the photos are old, sometimes the photos are shots I have taken recently. I've been in a "spring" kind of mood lately.

The first one is called "wide open spaces." This is the 'old' photo (yeah, it's like 4 years old, ha!).

The last 2 images are recent. I almost can't believe the dandelions already bloomed and turned to fluff already. Of course, there will be more and more of them for the rest of the summer... The last image is my first ladybug of the season. Yes, I know, it's really a multicolored asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). Anyway, this little beetle was out in the yard sitting on the brand new butterfly bush I just planted. How sweet : ) Hopefully all bodes well for the bush.

As always, I invite you to check out my treasuries:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/people/sarahkdesigns

Outside: autumn trees

It's getting to be that time again when the leaves begin to turn...