Fall season with all of its beautiful colors is suddenly over. This year it was a weird one, with many areas not having good colors, with some going from green to brown and then immediately dropping down to the ground.
A few weeks ago I took early morning walk at the Reynolda Gardens and found this little spot with perfect ground cover, highlighted by morning sun. Something to remember this season during upcoming winter months.
Sometimes you find things that you are not looking for and it just cuts you with surprise. A few month back we were in Oregon. We hiked for more than an hour to see Mirror Lake with reflection of the Mt Hood. We were lucky with clear skies and the view was nice, but there was a constant breeze that put some ripples across the lake, we spent almost an hour looking from couple different points and waiting for calmness. I managed to take some photos, one of them was posted here in August. A lot of effort, but in the end I didn’t get the perfect “mirror”.
This morning I went for a walk in the nearby Reynolda Park. There is a trail there and couple gravel roads. Usually I take the trail, but this morning for whatever reason I started in the wrong place and took one of the side roads. I knew where I was and went towards little ponds to get back to the trail. When I came to the pond, I approached it from an unusual access point and was treated to this awesome view of absolutely still water with amazing deep reflection of the sky and trees from the other side of the pond. The sun was at the right angle and it helped to reflect it with some amazing detail. As I was enjoying the view I thought that if I didn’t get lost and if I came to the lake from the other side, I might not see this little mirror, with it glimpse on the world above it. You can almost flip this photo 180 and you’d think that the reflection was the real thing. The cool part is that there are more details on the trees in the mirror than in its real version.
After taking this photo I hiked around the pond. No cool reflections.
Yesterday evening we went for a short walk at Salem Lake to see if they fixed the dam and if the lake is still deflated. The dam is nowhere near completion and water levels at its lowest levels, but the fall colors are still in full force, just as I was hoping for.
Today I processed two of them from last night and decided to post both of them at the same time.
I did not plan to take a photo with someone jogging, but when this dude showed up I kept pressing the shutter. I ‘m glad he did, it gives this photo some dynamic and a bit more of a foreground focus. Sun was going down but with super clear skies it was very bright, you can witness it by the reflection from the lake.
This was taken before the first photo, the light at this spot was superb, illuminating fall colors, so I could not resist but take some photos. I hope you enjoy a bit of fall colors as much as I do.
Weather in NC right now is not super nice, it is hot (about 95F-30C), humid and just not very pleasant to be outside. Today we had some thunderstorms coming through, which were good for all the trees and flowers, we needed them. Humidity on other hand increased two-fold. We took a bike ride around the town and were sweating like pigs after 45 minutes of cruising around downtown and other areas. On the way back, in our neighborhood, I heard a lot of what sounded like power equipment being turned on. It was around 6PM and I was wondering, what the heck, are they cutting their grass, but no yard trucks around, is it their pool pumps are so loud? they were noisy. We got back to our place, trying to open garage door and it is not working. Hmm. Wiff was quick to point out that we might not have electricity. Yes, she was right, all that noise in the neighbors houses was their electric generators. Now it makes sense.
We decided to get out to get some food. Celtic Cafe, one of our two Irish Pubs here was totally deserted and their food just sucked. It used to be good but lately we are not happy with it. Guinness is still good, not sure how difficult to screw it up.
Anyway, on the way back we decided to take a walk by the new stadium and check it out, the game was in full mode. I was hoping we would get some colors with all the clouds after the storms, but the west was pretty much darkened, so only few sunrays got this way. Click on it to see it large.
