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Today I’m taking part in the photo challenge called Festival of Leaves (this is week 4). You can view my contribution to week 1 and week 2. You can click on each photo for a larger view. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.
Unlike the East Coast, it’s a challenge to see some colorful fall foliage in the San Diego area. After all, most of our landscape is covered with chaparral, California sage brush, a variety of grasses and tons of cacti. So you can imagine my pleasant surprise when I happened to drive right by this beautiful maple tree during a recent day trip to the mountain town of Julian, California, about an hour away from San Diego.
It was standing tall and proud in someone’s large front yard. I can’t imagine how ecstatic those people must be every fall when the leaves of their tree start turning. Here’s a closer look at these beautiful leaves. By the way, it was an absolutely beautiful day after the very windy Santa Ana winds died down.
Here are a few more maple leaves with the sunlight shining the other way. They almost look golden there.
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I often admonish myself for not noticing the little things about nature, but when it comes to fall trees, I notice them in abundance. Even driving my kids to school is a treat, because I get so caught up in the fall colors. Love it.
I bet you have a lot of that where you live. I really enjoy fall in other places of the US a lot more than in San Diego. Nature really knows how to say goodbye to the year in bold colors.
That it does. Fall is what keeps me from moving to a more neutral climate. I just love it too much.
That’s a season I miss a lot here. I hope my kids get to see what fall really looks like for most people out there one day.
Wow – that’s so red that it’s almost pink! That’s great that you stopped to take those photos. Our leaves don’t normally get very bright here either – supposedly it has something to do with the ocean air so it’s nice to see bright fall colors like that.
I was lucky enough to be able to pick a few leaves to take back home. Unfortunately they get darker when they dry up, but they are still beautiful to look at. We’ll be using them and other leaves to create some type of fall art project soon.
What an amazing photo! The contrast between this fantastic red and the blue of the sky makes it so vivid… Thanks a lot for taking part and see you again next week 😉
xoxo
verena
Thank you very much! We don’t have a lot of colorful fall foliage in San Diego but they do have beautiful blue skies to make up for it.
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Gorgeous shots!
Thank you very much!
Very colourful and impressive pictures.
Thank you very much!
The sweet colors of autumn – enjoy while you can. Ours are totally done by now, all trees bare, snowflakes dancing in the air today….
We still have leaves on those trees that are supposed to lose them (otherwise we have brush and cactus), but they’ll be gone by the end of November and back in April.