I didn't think I'd have anything more to say about Autumn foliage for this year until I went to get the newspaper from my home mailbox yesterday and was greeted with a rain-soaked Japanese maple tree on my front lawn that had turned a stunning scarlet colour almost overnight.
What made it even more spectacular was the neighbouring sugar maple tree with contrasting yellow leaves on one side and the deep green leaves of a rhododendron shrub on the other side.
If it looks and sounds like I live in some kind of botanical garden, don't be fooled. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but what they don't say is that what picture doesn't show can hide a thousand sins.
In this case, I carefully framed my subject in these pictures so as not to show my mossy lawn with its weeds and cinch bugs, plus a mangy birch tree that has been dying a thousand deaths for the last several years. But, year after year, I can always count on my Japanese maple to come through.
Acadian Southshore Autumn
Before I let Autumn die with dignity, I would also like to show some fall foliage images that were sent to me from the Camera Club in the Pubnico area by Bernice d'Entremont of the West Pubnico Acadian Museum. They lead me to believe the southwestern part of the province had a colourful autumn. Unfortunately, this year I didn't get beyond Queens County in that direction. Maybe next year!
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