Last updated on October 31st, 2022
We had a late fall in Minnesota that peaked and ended within a week. I measure this by the giant maple in the neighbor’s yard that turns brilliant yellow in the fall. It went like this:
- Day 1: The maple is full of leaves showing just a hint of color
- Day 2: The weather suddenly turns cold and a light snow falls.
- Day 4: The maple has become completely swathed in gold.
- Day 6: Every leaf has fallen from the maple and is burying neighborhood years under a thick blanket. Fall is over.
While I’m glad to know that trees have some ability to react to the threat of limb-breaking snow, it made for a much too sudden end to the fall.
So I’m still wanting it to be fall and wishing there had been more time to enjoy the fall leaves when I was in Chicago. It already feels as if it were a very long time ago. I hope these images capture that half-remembered sense of fall in Chicago.
This is my contribution to Travel Photo Thursday at Nancie’s Budget Traveler’s Sandbox. For more photos from around the world, head on over to see what she’s posted and follow the links to more.
Wow Cindy, love these photos! They have great texture and they look very painterly. Great job!
Cool texture filter on your photos. It’s interesting that fall goes by so quickly. Living in Texas and now in Malaysia, I’ve never really experienced a “real” autumn leaf change. I always thought the colorful leaves hung around for weeks.
We just WISH they would hang around for weeks. Actually, this year they did hang around for weeks – it was me that was always off elsewhere!
Very nice! I feel like we go through the same cycle here in NY.
I bet NY is lovely in the fall.
Love the textures you’ve given your photos. Pretty neat!
Thanks. Experimenting!
Thanks, Leigh. I filter it in photo shop – I don’t usually use photo shop at all, but I was feeling like I needed some texture!
Very cool photos. Did you use a filter? I am amazed too at how quickly a tree can go from peak colour to nothing. Looks like we’re into our 4th weekend in a row of snow.