Sunday, November 09, 2014

Flirting

Yesterday when I was home, with the afternoons becoming shorter and the air turning cooler as soon as the sun's angle begins to drop lower on the horizon, I retreated to my sitting room and went through emails and paid bills, later to read some story that takes place in a warmer climate while trying to not think about winter's gray finger pulling constantly at the sun.  But the river does not let me sit forever.  Soon she winks at me through the windows.  She giggles when the sunshine tickles her back and I have to put down my laptop and head outside with my camera.  This is a good thing, because I would have missed this if I ignored the flirtation.   The dance of river and light is just too seductive.  (Yes, this belongs on my other blog but there is a canoe trip going on there.)


So I put on my outdoor shoes and close off my email and go outside to smile for a while.


The sunlight bounces right off the top of the river into my eyes with fire.  It bathes the pomegranate, now as high at the second story bedroom window and devoid of its red fruit, into the most stunning "lime" light.  In the distance with trees throwing off leaves I can see my neighbors house once again.


Then what should happen but this morning while hubby left early to test his guns at the neighbors field, I was called again to my back yard to see what gifts Mother Earth left me to cheer me up against the shorter days.


These leaves are the exact color they were hanging above my head.  No hue or saturation adjustment as Mother Nature has an excellent palette.  Is is not a wonder that winter comes as such a shock to the soul?

16 comments:

  1. Lovely photos. I saw some of the willows turning color on one of our walks down here. The river bottoms and draws do have autumn color even though the desert as a whole doesn't. Tucson though is at 2000 some feet and if I really want the feel of autumn, I can always drive up to Mt. Lemmon, hovering over Tucson, or the Santa Ritas, to the south, where there very much are four seasons.

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  2. Just marvelous temptatious. Wonderful stuff waiting for you out there. I need new pictures that aren't clothing or nick nacks. :)

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  3. What a gorgeous post. Wow. The sunlight coming through all of those colors is just beautiful. Thanks for not saturating these pics, which is a pet peeve of mine. There is no reason to boost photos like this!

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  4. i still say that autumn is the most beautiful time of the year.

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  5. Oh, such color! I would have had to go out with my camera too.

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  6. I think I could have seen those scenes with the photos, your word pictures are wonderful. Nature surely is the most outrageous of flirts. I love autumn here, too although ours pale compared with the depth of your colours.

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  7. Extraordinary colors.

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  8. As difficult a time as i have with the cold, such colors make me want to tempt fate and move north for a while.

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  9. Such beauty
    I do not have water near by
    but the trees surrounding this
    cottage are so beautiful.
    Warm here today
    and I am outside most of day
    because I know in my heart
    we are at the end of this warm
    weather.

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  10. I envy you your river front. I have wanted two things in my life...some sort of live water...pond, creek, or river and an eat in kitchen. doesn't look like I will get either.

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  11. RYN: LOL We are only 3 miles from downtown. He had two browswers going, and they let him buy me a 4 day pass. It's almost nothing at senior rates, then it wouldn't let him buy more than one day. Poor guy.

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  12. Beautiful colors and photos!
    The autumn in your country is really gorgeous.
    In Brazil we don't have such golden colors in autumn.

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  13. GORgeous---OMG---just GORgeous---your words as well as your photos---I fell right into this post and did not want to even come up for air---and I live right on a small lake, yet still, I would love to be outside of YOUR house with Mother Nature--- :) (I have missed visiting with you)

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  14. Beautiful colors. My vista is now grey on grey.

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  15. I'm glad you went out. I'm call too by the play of light especially at this time of year. Images and words here are pure j poetry.

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  16. What a wondrous spot. Such a spectacular autumn really softens one up for the dreaded winter.
    Autumn used to make me feel sad but now I relish its beauty.

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