My fall wreath that's not a wreath

Emily is doing Tuesdays unwrapped again, noticing the gifts that are easy to miss.

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I’m a guy -- I don’t do wreaths or dried cornhusks with pumpkins and gourds.  Or those cornucopia things.  But I love fall and it’s emotion.  I think the emotion is nostalgia – you can feel the dying of something and you reflect on the life and days and summer and times and events and change that came before.  Leaves seem the perfect picture of that. 

My fall wreath on the door is my computer screen.  Webshots helps you compile albums of photos of different themes that you can turn on and off as a screensaver.  I just turned on my fall album.  My favorite pictures are the ones I’ve taken over the years in my neighborhood.  They’re not professional quality and are taken with a cheap Nikon point and shoot -- I don’t even look at the screen as I take them.  But they’re mine and are personal and they help me feel the emotion of fall. 

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Five feet from our back door, in the patio chairs – don’t touch a thing, just behold from different angles and lighting.  The Crepe Myrtle blooms from the end of May into September.  It deserves a rest…

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The sun loves to help them wave goodbye…

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A few blocks from my house, this exact scene on the sidewalk – I think there was a wedding at the park gazebo the day before and a plastic rose was left behind…

Then the cadavers without the rose.  Doesn’t get much deader than this.  But unless a seed falls to the ground and dies, it remains but a single seed.  But if it dies, it produces much fruit…

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And some results of the death of seeds, at the roadside stand two miles from our house…

Comments

[emily]

I love these shots! I can practically smell the chill and dried leaves.

[Dayle]

Great fall pics. It's my favorite time of year. I only wish it was more defined here in Southeast Texas, but we love the little that we get.

[Sharone]

I think you're so right about fall being about nostalgia - the sense that with the changing winds and the turning leaves, something unspoken and ineffable is being left behind. Your pictures capture this sense beautifully. :)

[Dianne]

Gorgeous pictures--thanks for sharing!