WRITING PROMPT
An Upward Glance at Autumn
Coloured or bare, the trees are still stunning here
I just couldn’t resist a second post for Anne Bonfert’s Looking Up writing prompt. I had missed my frequent park walks and hoped the trees were still hanging onto some leaves.
I was not disappointed when I finally took a walk there on Sunday. I’d missed the prime part of the day when the sky was a cloudless blue, but they added an element of beauty as I wandered my usual tracks in the late afternoon.
A handful of trees were still spectacular; the late afternoon sun highlighting their beauty. So many different colour hues on one tree!
There were many more that were stripped bare, ready for the wrath of Winter.
Some had leaves clinging on for dear life; the next windstorm will likely strip them from their clutches and whirl them to the ground.
Others are more tenacious, like the Willow. Her leaves are still en mass, stoically holding tight to branches and twigs despite being deciduous.
In places, neighbouring trees were starkly contrasted; while one was still well endowed with leaves, the other naked.
I think this is an abandoned wasp or hornet nest dangling precariously from high above.
Then there were the coniferous pine trees; cones tightly clustered but only on their higher branches. I love the smell of pine at Christmas time but I usually resort to scented candles than the real thing.
Yes, I cheated on my next photo using the ‘metric’ colour edit to highlight this maple tree. It’s rare that I alter my pics, but I loved how the remaining leaves were in their full Canadian charm and the photo was too dark to showcase that.
Finally, here’s some fluff. These reeds may be a common lakeside plant at the park, but they are truly beautiful right now. It wasn’t exactly taken from an upward perspective but they were too nice to exclude.
Thanks again, Anne Bonfert for the prompt to get me back in the swing of things. I was always one to ‘look up’, mindful that beauty surrounds us in all directions.
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