Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Brown is Settling In....and The Leaf Fairy!!


As I was driving to Bible Study this morning, I noticed that the trucks were out gathering the leaves for the Fall pick-ups.  In our community and in many surrounding communities we rake our leaves to curbside and these wonderful trucks with a huge vacuum cleaner attached travel up and down the streets sucking up all those leaves.  Sure wish those giant vacuums could come in my yard and suck up all the leaves so I wouldn't have to do that big chore in raking the leaves to the curb.  I know, I am definitely getting lazier and lazier as age continues to catch up with me.  I did spend time outside yesterday blowing & raking the leaves from the parkway out to the curb, but there was still a whole yard full left to do.  When I came home from Bible Study and running errands today, I was surprised that all the leaves from the front and side yard had been raked and are now in huge piles along the curbside.  It must have been the leaf fairy...is there such a thing?? I strongly believe in guardian angels (I overwork mine all the time) but leaf fairies are quite new to me.  I hope you are blessed with a leaf fairy if your yard is as full of leaves as mine was. So today, I am grateful for the leaf fairy, whoever that might be!!  And for those giant vacuums that pick up those leaves that the leaf fairy magically cleared from my yard.

There is still some color left on the trees, but a lot of the surroundings have taken on the 6 month brown look.  Now I love brown, it looks especially nice with red or that lovely shade of robins egg blue, but by March brown is no longer a look I love, but right now I'm likin' brown, especially when I can find a red barn for the background.



So what about where you live?  Has brown settled in for the long haul or are you still seeing plenty of color, or maybe Fall hasn't even reached you yet?

And I am apologizing right here, right now, I have been sooo very bad about visiting your lovely blogs and leaving you some love...I have been really, really busy editing photos for the photo shoots I have had lately, trying to organize myself for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday when ALL my children and grandchildren will be here, trying desperately to get ready for our annual Christmas Art Show where I sell my calendars and cards with my photography and keeping up posting daily for my month of gratitude.  And day to day living stuff....forgive me.  You know I will catch up as soon as possible.

And fyi, if any of you make those lovely CD calendars for gifts here is a link to a couple of templates for 2014.  Tracey Clark has one on her "Our Collective Page"  follow this link and click on calendar...it will automatically down load in a zip file.  And Lauri at Pride in Photos also offered a link for one as well, click here 

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -- only a sense of existence." 
-- Henry David Thoreau 

Until next time....



13 comments:

  1. No leaf fairy here. We mulch/mow or leaves. The red barn is a perfect backdrop for those seed heads.

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  2. That is pretty amazing that a truck comes by and sucks up the leaves from the curbing. Never heard of that before. Also i am so glad for you that the leaf fairy came to visit. Your thistle shot is wonderful! Love it. HOpe that your thanks giving is wonderful. Do you ever bring your husband home for a holiday like that, or is it too disturbing to him to be out of his element. Happy day

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  3. glad you have someone watching over your place. :) i love the browns of the season. we have just started getting the best of tree color (at least by texas standards) due to 2 early freezes last week.

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  4. Lots and lots of brown here but will soon be covered white and more white. Each season has its own beauty it seems. The thistles against the red barn backdrop are so artistic.

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  5. How wonderful that a leaf fairy visited you! :-) We have mostly brown here, but I noticed a little color this morning as I drove to work--my prime time during the week to see what's up in nature. I'm liking the brown this year more than I usually do. I think it's because I'm looking at it more through a camera lens this year.

    Love the photo with the red barn in the background and the great quote!

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  6. Hi Deanna Changing colours and changing seasons are wonderful. You thistle shot is fantastic. Last evening I went to a leacture in Belfast and as I walked throufh the university ground when it was daar, there were 4 trees that were lite up by fllodlights an theleaves on them were bright yellow. Wonderful.

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  7. Despite the storm, we also can enjoy the beauty of changing colors. I still wonder how you take such beautiful crisp photographs, maybe it's time to ask you for some tips.

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  8. All of a sudden this week we went from colorful to brown and bare - amazing how fast and drastic the change is!

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  9. You are so right ... brown this time of year can glow. Come March, not so much. I love your browns today. {We don't have a leaf fairy so Mr. Peepaw mows over the leaves to get rid of them.}

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  10. I still have green in my yard, live Oaks, yuck...never lose their leaves except for in the spring when more new green growth happens. I did however find some color the other day when it was foggy, crimson red, and it was so pretty. The brown against the red barn is perfect!

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  11. Just catching up here Deanna! I was out photographing the brown yesterday. You just have to get out and look closer--it is a great exercise in gratitude, for it requires intentionality.

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  12. The Leaf Fairy came by our house, too. Edster grumbled because he wanted to put the leaves on the garden as compost...I was elated that someone would be so thoughtful!

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