A street in a small town in Ontario, near to where I've loved to walk for the past few years.
Late afternoon on an Indian summer's day. The chilly water of the creek appears warm and golden.
Few leaves remain on the trees on the far bank. I suspect they're long gone by now.
That late day sunshine brought out so many colours hidden within the trees and brush. I'm glad this day warmed up to greet me this way.
And again to say "Goodbye."
The golden orb of sunlight turns the treetops into silhouettes.
And birds take their final flight to shelter for the night.
This day, the season, these memories are golden.
68 comments:
I'll never get tired of looking at Autumn pictures - LOVE them...
Those scenes...strangely familiar....
There are still a few colourful leaves clinging to one small tree on the north side of the little pond.
At least as of this morning.
Beautiful shots. :)
Wonderful golden tones. What a glorious autumn you've been having!
A couple of those made me think "Hudson River School," the light and the colors all softened and mellow.
The last picture is stunning . . . a real mood-setter.
Hilary, as always, beautiful pictures. You captured those amazing autumn colours. I also enjoyed the pictures in your previous blog. - Dave
Beautiful Hilary! I especially enjoyed the sunset photos. Such a golden glow infused the entire pic...fabulous!!
Hugs
SueAnn
I love your poetic photography dear Hilary.
The first river photograph resembles a painting, it is almost like a fantasy, too good to be true...
And you know how much I love sunsets.;)
Have a lovely Sunday dear friend,
xo
a lovely walk you took us on...i was listening to the trees and the water...such beauty...my fave thoough is that skeleton of a tree at teh end with the sun peeking through...
so pretty but now it seems so cold and gloomy...
These are so pretty. I like that you say the water appears warm. I know things get really cold up there and you did a great job with the glorious colors of fall.
Always a treat chez vous! My favorite time of year...
Lovely pics Hilary. Love that last one of the bare tree - what more beautiful piece of sculpture could one find?
The colors of the water balance the colors of the leaves beautifully.
Mary Anne in Kentucky
The colors of Fall are so warm to make up for the chill in the air.
Wow! Beautiful pictures. Makes me want to take a trip to Canada!
Gorgeous. Pic No. 4 has a dream-like quality to it.
It's always a treat to see the fall colours.
I never get tired of looking at your pictures.
I just can't get enough of the beautiful autumn colors.
Lovely autumn colours. I love the last sunset, with the clouds faintly tinted.
Beautiful as always, I agree, I never tire of autumn photos. That third photo is spectacular.
Oh, yes. Still beautiful, the shades of fall. I love these warm splashes of color on the landscape, and wish I could see more of it way down here in green, green Florida. There are pockets of fall regalia here, but not near enough.
As you know, I am a fan of your excellent photography! Many of these scenes look like isolated areas. But I enjoyed them all...especially the sunset.
Thank you for sharing these pics. I love the vicarious tour through the Canadian autumn :)
those river shots are amazing! thanks for taking us along with you...I could look at beautiful photos until the cows come home!
Beautiful pictures. Bring back memories of our year in Canada.
All the leaves are gone from the trees on my street now. Well, not quite gone, they're in bags waiting to be picked up on Yard Waste Day.
There's no such thing as too many of your pictures.
These photos are simply phenomenal! That first photo...oh, if we got color that rich in fall!
Brenda
Your photos and your posts are golden. :)
such a gorgeous autumn post!
Another lovely set of photographs, I really love the last one, that is one awesome sunset!
Wow, that last photo is absolutely gorgeous Hilary! Very pretty!
:)
Breath taking pictures!!! I love fall & your sky pictures are so beautiful!! ~ Coreen
I welcome as many of those lovely shots as you want to share.
I am already weary of looking at the crunchy brown leaves on the ground waiting to be raked.
Outstanding. Dreamy. Thank you, friend.
• Thank you, Stacey Dawn. :)
• Frank, thank you. I hope there will also always be a couple of coins clinging to that other tree on the evening walk.... :)
• Thanks, LadyFi. It's been a beauty. :)
• June, thank you for such kind words and comparison. Very much appreciated. :)
• Dave, thanks kindly. I'm glad you enjoyed them. :)
• SueAnn, thank you. It was such a lovely evening. I'm glad you could enjoy it along with me. :)
• Zuzana, thanks so much. It was beautiful sunlight and I had no choice but to snap those shots. The beauty was all Nature's. Thanks for the visit. :)
• Brian, I'm glad you could join me on my walk and partake in the sights and sounds. Thanks for the kind words. :)
• Gary, it some ways, it sure does... Thanks for the visit. :)
• TechnoBabe, thanks. The water was anything but warm, but that golden sunlight could easily have had me fooled. Thanks for the kind comments. :)
• MPM, merci beaucoup! ;)
• Quite true, Bonnie. Nature sure does beautiful artwork. Thanks for stopping by. :)
• Mary Anne, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the visit. :)
• Nessa, so true. They seem to glow, don't they? Thanks for stopping by. :)
• Elizabeth, let me know when you plan to be here. We'll walk. ;)
• Leah, thank you. It sure is a visually appealing time of year. :)
• Well thank you kindly, Ellen. :)
• Kristina, they're done with us long before we're done with them. Thanks for the visit. :)
• Reb, thanks kindly. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
• Steve, thanks very much. It's impossible to stop snapping shots on days like this, isn't it? :)
• Fragrant Liar, I imagine the colours are quite lacking that far south. You'll have to take a trip to your northeastern coast to see the real autumn colours. Thanks for stopping by. :)
• Michael, thanks kindly. They're not too isolated at all. They're mostly on, or just off of a walking path. Thanks for the always kind words. :)
• Merry, I'm sure glad that you could join me. Thanks for that. :)
• Jillsy, what an udderly nice thing to say. Thanks so much. :)
• Moannie, ahh yes. I remember you've spent time in my native Montreal. Thanks for joining me. :)
• Shammie, that's pretty gone! Ours have pretty much disappeared now too but since I still have a lot of photos, it will continue to exist in my blog for a few more posts. :)
• Well thank you so much for that, MessyMimi. :)
• Brenda, thank you so kindly. I'm glad you enjoyed them. :)
• Thanks so much, JarieLyn. Much appreciated. :)
• Tammie Lee thank you kindly. :)
• MaggieGem, I'm glad you enjoyed them. Thanks so much. :)
• Rainy, I kind of thought you'd like that tree best. ;) Thanks very much. :)
• Coreen, I'm glad to hear it. Thanks very kindly . :)
• Slamdunk, that sounds good to me because I have a fair number of them left to share over the next while. Thanks for stopping by. :)
• Thanks so much, Sandy. Your visits always make me smile. :)
Ahhhhhhhh...Thank you!
Beautiful...love that tree photo...love all these photos actually...may have to point my taxi toward that golden orb...so tempting. Thanks for sharing that nice walk with us. ;)
Very nice, as always. Autumn is fading fast here. First snow today, but drearily mixed with rain. Bleah.
I particularly like the power lines hiding in the corner of the last. Reminds me a bit of a place I used to go for solitude: down an electric company service road. It was a strange mix of urban and rural scenery. You were right in the middle of the city, of course, but if you looked the right way, you could pretend you had gotten away from it all. I hardly ever saw anyone else there.
And the power lines themselves were pretty interesting to look at. You could even hear them hum.
And for some reason, probably just something from the attics of my mind, I'm thinking of John Lennon's Old Dirt Road. One of my favorites.
Nature in all its autumn glory! Fabulous shots!
These photographs remind me of the scenery on our hike yesterday. I think the late afternoon autumn glow paints everything golden.
My fav is the one showing the young saplings in full color in front of the naked big trees.
Still waiting, in my neck of the woods, for full fall color to hit. Our gingkos are just beginning to turn thier brilliant yellow.
Taken leaves of your senses... that's very punny.
I love the light (and even the dark) in these ... especially the next to last shot
One day I hope to see an autumn as glorious and the ones you have! That street with all the color....wonderful!
The sun is shining today...I think I need to go for a drive and look for some color here.
How vibrant the colors are! I envy you so much at this time of the year. We don't have quite the brightness in our fall season. I love the creek with the oranges behind it. Gorgeous photos once again!
As much as I love the wonderful colors of the season, those sunset shots...especially the last one are nothing short of stunning!
The final shot was like the climax!
Aloha from Waikiki :)
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Your images are always so lovely Hilary!
How perfectly that camera of yours has captured the season. I can't wait for the winter shots, I'm sure these will pale in comparison...then again, maybe not, lol!
hugs
Sandi
These are all so beautiful, Hilary. It's hard to pick a favorite, but I'm kind of partial to the one with the bare tree trunks with the few colorful leaves behind them.
I was scrolling through your posts, showing some of your pictures to my husband, and he saw something in one that even you might not have seen. In the November 4th post, in the photo of the little leaf under the stick, Doug saw a swan in the shadow created by the leaf. I saw it, too, after he pointed it out.
• Thank YOU, DS. :)
• King, thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoyed the photos. :)
• Cricket, no snow here yet but the autumn shades have long-faded. Bare trees everywhere with only a few stubborn leaves clinging to them. The way you describe your solitude spot is very much like my park. I can hear and see the city around me but I can easily pretend I'm deep in the woods. That's what I love about the magic of photography - it hides the stuff you don't want to see and enhances the beauty of your surroundings. Magic! Thanks always for your thoughtful comments and for the musical interlude. :)
• Indicaspecies, thanks very much. I'm pleased that you enjoyed them. :)
• KC, you're so right about the late afternoon sun at this time of the year (late day sun in summer). It bathes everything in deep, saturated colours. Thanks for the visit. :)
• Thank you, Jane. I'm envious that you're just at the start of your colourful season. You'll have to share some images. Thanks so much for stopping by. :)
• Nick, thanks. ;)
• Daryl, thanks so much. Always a pleasure to share with you. :)
• Steviewren, it sure is a sight to behold. I do hope you manage to spend some autumn days like this some year. I hope you enjoyed your drive and thanks for stopping by. :)
• Redbush, thanks so much for your always kind words. It's good to see you out in the blog world again. :)
• Susie, thank you very kindly. I'm glad you enjoyed the photos. :)
• Cloudia, thanks very much. I'm glad you liked it. :)
• Thank you, Kerri. As are yours. :)
• Sandi, I have no trouble waiting for winter. I'm in NO hurry for the cold and the snow! Thanks for the very kind words. :)
• Linda, thank you so much for the always kind words. Your hubby is so right about that photo. It does indeed look like a little swan, and I had not noticed it. Thank you for pointing that out. So cool! :)
Gorgeous. I am so glad you are posting these. It's the Autumn shots that help me make it through our long, dark winters-- but this year, my Fall foliage time was too busy and I didn't get any of the beautiful reds and oranges. I may have to load your page up and stare at it often:-)
Beautiful shots!
Our trees have shed most of their leaves to the cold & wind lately as well.
These are very warm, rich photos. I really like the Far Bank photo with it's bit of colour amongst the bareness of the other branches.
i don't think it's possible for me to tire of autumn beauty!
Hilary, you Canadians know how to do autumn, I'm telling you. What a lovely set of photographs.
What I honestly thought when I saw the trees behind the bare trees on the bank?
"Wow, those orange trees are wishing they'd picked a game other than hide-and-seek."
You live in a place rich with autumn color. Thanks for taking me there!
I love the colour of your trees at this time. I don't think ours ever look like that.
this is beautiful and makes the cold seem a lot more pleasant than normal
oh.. Hilary.
we are going to be walking among the barren aren't we..
these photos are treasures. they are.
(slowly catching up.... )
Hi, Hilary! All gorgeous, but I especially love the wonderful composition of the three trees with a few leaves behind them. Just a perfect, beautiful photo. Fall is heaven for photographers, isn't it. :)
• IBHH, thank you so much. I'm pleased that you're enjoying the autumn pics. Feel free to stare all you like. In fact, I'll be posting more photos for you again fairly soon since I still have so many in reserve. Thanks always for the kind words. :)
• Thank you, Sarah. It's like that here too now, but not in my photo folder. ;)
• Thanks very much, AnvilCloud. I'm glad you're enjoying them. :)
• Lime, it sure is a special time of year. Thanks for stopping by. :)
• Alane, thanks kindly, my friend. You sure do have a unique way of viewing our worlds and I'm sure glad you opt to share it. Thanks for this. :)
• Don, thanks for joining me. Much appreciated. :)
• Robyn, we're very lucky to get such dramatic colours here. It helps to remember that when we're in the midst of dramatic snow falls later. Thanks for stopping by. :)
• So true, SY. Thanks for the visit. I hope you'll return again soon. :)
• Deb, it's beginning to look like that, isn't it? Thanks so much for the always kind words. :)
• So good to see you, Sandra. I hope you're mending well. Thanks for the kind comment and yes, you're so right about this marvelous season. :)
You really take some of the most breathtaking pictures! So beautiful!
Thanks so much, Bubblewench. Good to see you. :)
A nice selection of photos to make a virtual tour of a nice place to enjoy.
• Welcome, Out on the Prairie, and thanks very much for the kind words. Very much appreciated.
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