Now that Fall is about over and the beautiful foliage has mostly blown away, I have time to get my Fall photography, 2014 ready to share.
These photos were taken by me and some of them were taken as I was driving. So they are not perfect, but they capture some of the nice color we were blessed with this Autumn season.
Some photos were taken along Route 202, and some were taken as I walked around a local lake. Then I drove out through Antrim and Hancock for some more rural photos.
Time ticks away and we never seem to get ahead, until Fall, when we gain an hour. Then part of that extra hour is wasted changing the time on all our clocks.
Although the time change has screwed up my sleep even more than it was, I have felt like I had extra time over the past couple of days. I even took an hour off work yesterday to sit and watch The Walking Dead episode I missed. I couldn’t stay awake until 9pm to see it on Sunday night.
Now I go to bed at 8pm and get up at 3am and I guess that is how it will be for a while. I’m glad I don’t have a baby in the house. Their schedules get all messed up, and I remember how tough it was to get my kids on any kind of sleep schedule (they didn’t like to sleep), and then the time change would happen. It was like starting over again.
Now the mornings are brighter, but they will get dark too. Our shortest days are ahead, and that is a tough time. I’ll be going to bed earlier and earlier as winter closes in. It’s a form of people hibernation I suppose.
But nice days are in the forecast for this week, and there are a lot of leaves out there to rake. I see backaches in my future for sure. My workday will have to be cut short so that I am not raking leaves in the dark!
If the weather is not too cold this morning I will go downtown and vote with my daughter and then walk home, while she goes on to work. It should be sunny and bright, and there won’t be many more days for walking. Most of the leaves have blown off the trees, but there are still some beautiful colors on the stragglers.
Today I am happy about the end of political ads and phone calls! Whoo hoo…..
I collected these leaves while on a walk along a dirt road one day. I used to live in a very rural location and I didn’t own my own place, so I had a lot of time to walk. Fall and winter were always my favorite seasons to take landscape photography around the nearby lake. I walked alone mostly, but sometimes I took my landlady’s dog with me for company. The area was full of dirt roads and paths to follow through the woods. It was fun to find moose tracks (never saw one though) and spot wildlife.
In winter I got out early with the camera to capture the morning sun glinting on the tall pines. When I was a kid I always wanted to be the first one to go out in a new snowfall and make the first tracks. There is just something about a landscape of fresh smooth snow that calls to me!
Although I knew it was not my true home, that area where I lived for a few years made an impact because of it’s beauty. I enjoy solitude, and my rental years near the lake gave me plenty of that. The change of seasons was especially pretty there, and I always looked forward to the leaves changing color in fall. Many of the houses around the lake are seasonal, and are empty during foliage season. During summer the place is buzzing with visitors to beach and boat ramp, but once the kids go back to school the place becomes mostly deserted.
Since I work from home, I could take time during the day and get my photos without any people getting in my way. So here I share some of my photos.
I was finally able to take a ride around the area where I live in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, and take some fall pictures. One of my favorite places to photograph is near a lake in Antrim. It’s usually quiet, and the scenery is very pretty at any time of year, but fall can be a great time to get photos.
We’d had some nasty rainy weather just about the time I noticed that the autumn color was really nice. I hate when that happens. The foliage brightens and then leaves us all to quickly as it is, and we don’t need the weather to knock the leaves off even earlier. But what can you do?
Fortunately I had driven along Rt. 202 to the computer repair shop in Antrim and my son was riding with me. I brought the camera and asked him to take pictures of anything that looked good along the way. And he got some pretty good images.
Then I went back up to Antrim to specifically visit Gregg Lake. But by the time there was good enough weather, the leaves were looking a bit gone by. And sure enough, when I got to the lake, it wasn’t too wonderful color wise. But I did take a bunch of photos anyway, like the one of the orange leaves headlining this post. I made it into a poster and will add it to other items in my Fall Colors online store.
I had a nice and peaceful visit to my old stomping grounds, and even ran into an old friend who was walking her dogs. Fall is still looking pretty good as I write this, but shortly the season will be ending, and we know what comes next!
New England's Narrow Road 