Full of Trees & Changing Leaves

“All the lives we’ve ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” — Virginia Woolf, from The Waves (1931)

A little more than a month ago, spouse and I walked a loop on a nearby trail that twists and turns through woods, partly along a brook, and then it intersects, if you like, a wider grassy trail that runs a short distance to the local drinking water reservoir in one direction and back to the parking lot in another. Early October: leaves still turning, water flowing, apples dropping, and light rain just beginning to fall as we were the farthest distance from the car. Fortunately, it was a short walk, only about 1.5 hours, and the rain was gentle.

From start to finish:

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doggos lost tennis balls in the brook
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rocky brook with some Hudson River School painting beyond it
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disheveled boulders
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curved tree trunks, yellow beech leaves, sunlight
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waterfalling brook
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mossy enchantment
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maple carpet
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flowing brookery with yellowness
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blurry beau braving brook boulder
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trees growing where they can
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red hobblebush leaves + maples + air
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brook placid
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autumn, with rain, at the utility right-of-way
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goldenrod still blooming (note wet leaves)
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roots ‘n rocks
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tree colour riot along wider path
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uh-oh (Japanese knotweed) + yay (ferns)
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tartish apples (but we didn’t die)
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rock cairn encircled at drinking water reservoir
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misty autumn at reservoir
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substantial red clover leaves
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jack in the pulpit berries (seeds inside)
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very red red maple leaflet
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le rouge et le noir: hobblebush berries
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blushing maple tree
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oak leaves in colour
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pale aster

(More 2017 field trips coming soon!)

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