Lens-Artists Challenge #106: Autumn
…share your images of this season. What does autumn look like in your part of the world? What does this season mean to you personally?
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Autumn marks time until the cold darkness of winter arrives…as each day rewards us by unveiling ever-changing shades of yellows, oranges and reds.
Along with greens stubbornly hanging on from summer.
A feast for the eyes.
The line of trees along my street pop with color, one by one.
Halloween, my favorite holiday, happens in Autumn. There’s no pressure for gifts or elaborate meals. It’s just all about fun and make-believe. Since moving to a condo, I miss the trick or treaters and those knocks on the kitchen door. Little upturned faces covered with makeup and masks…the scary or beautiful or silly masks that have holes made especially for mouths and noses. I absolutely delighted in their joy as the doorbell rang over and over from 5 to 8 pm.
Autumn also means it’s time for annual fall festivals…including a very special one that I attended last year. It is cancelled for 2020.
Dover, NH
October 2019
Eventually all the leaves turn brown…
…and at the end of a late September day – if you’re lucky – you witness a blaze of gold in a grocery store parking lot…
…in the Autumn.
one letter UP ~ diary 2.0 
I am sad about the festivals being cancelled this year. I love a good fair.
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So am I. I love them too!
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My daughter calls me a fall fair addict….I think I’m just a big fan.
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Nothing wrong with that 🙂
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Hi, OLU. Beautiful fall colors and images. I love the bit of gold in the parking lot! That’s the great thing–you never know where and when the next “aha” color is going to appear!
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Hi! Thank you and I’m glad you enjoyed my choices for fall. I love being surprised by “aha” moments like that too (and having my camera handy at the same time). 🙂
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Beautiful photos! Autumn always gives me the feeling that the plants are just happy to be giving up the exhausting fecundity of spring and summer. In winter, we all relax. ❤
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Thank you Martha 🙂 I like your perspective – makes sense. Exit stage left…
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One never knows where beauty will be found OLU – good for you for keeping an eye out for it. At a grocery store no less!!! Loved your pumpkins and agree wholeheartedly, I truly miss the little ones all excited in their costumes and masks.
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Thanks Tina! I am distracted often…and sometimes rewarded :). Yes, Halloween is bittersweet for sure.
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These pictures make me so excited for fall, although I’m sad to hear Apple Harvest Day is canceled – all the fall fairs will be canceled where I live too I’m sure.
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Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed them. I guess now we just focus on nature itself. The fall fairs have to wait for next year. Hopefully!
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Beautiful set of selections for autumn. Glorious fall colors. A feast for the eyes, indeed. 🙂
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Thank you Amy. It was hard to choose – Autumn gives us so many choices!
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WOWZA! I’m sorry there will be no festival this year, but we can hope next year will fulfill what patient hope and faith we cling to. I love all your photos, and that finale is spectacular!!
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Thanks so much Leslie. I am also hoping for next year. That last photo was being in the right place at the right time. 🙂
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It’s amazing how you do that–“be in the right place and the right time”…has to be divine placement 🙂 ❤ (As for next year–everyday I wake up with the same sense of unreality, so it has to get better…it's too crazy now, and "crazy" is not a good "normal" 🙂 ) Huge blessings to you, dear friend ❤ Keep bringing the great pics!! (Eventually I hope to write to some of them… 🙂 )
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Yes, I guess I’m lucky that way…or it’s divine placement. Whatever works 🙂
I wake up the same way. A surreal good morning to all. Blessings to you too. ❤
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Thank you so much, Andrea–we’re probably not alone in our “surreal good mornings” 🙂 It’s like when someone dies…and the world is never the same… Sorry to sound bleak–I’ll blame it on the violence in Seattle, which unbelievably is still escalating. I just don’t get it.
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Oh that must make it even harder. It’s one thing to never be the same, but another thing to have what’s “new” and surreal involve daily violence nearby. Bleak sounds about right. Sorry to hear that’s still happening.
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Thank you, Andrea–I avoid the news as much as I can, but when “Breaking News” interrupts the weather forecast…sheesh!!
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Great series, great colors. Love the pre-social distancing crowd. Those were the good old days.
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Thank you John! Yes those were the good old days…and I guess we had no clue just how good.
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Beautiful choices and well photographed! The parking lot really had me. And it is so strange to see so many people together. And I agree – we had no clue…
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Thank you! I am so pleased you like them. The parking lot shot was a happy surprise. I am hoping next year I can take another – new – festival photo.
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Let’s hope.
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Beautiful photos for the autumn prompt! Nice job. The close up of the leaves or the pumpkins are my favorites if I had to choose … but that parking lot one is cool too. Okay, I can’t really pick one favorite! I love your descriptions of the kids at Halloween – my mom loved that holiday too.
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Thank you 🙂 It was difficult for me to choose which photos to use as well. Autumn is such a rich time of year and a photographer’s dream!
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You’re welcome. Yes, indeed it is.
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Wonderful fall colors. I love that tree that is shaped like a snake in the first picture. Nice post.
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Thank you! I have been intrigued by that tree ever since I discovered it. Fall is its best season. 🙂
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