Day 149...

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

 

Today I thought I would go capture the beauty of a Autumn landscape,

so I travelled to the Adelaide Botanical Gardens

but even the best laid plans don't go to plan...

 

I can't help to get in close and capture the detail... I did get a landscape,

a panoramic landscape...

 

as I was leaving this guy landed on the ground right in front of me and of course I had to capture him...

Day 116... light as a...

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

I wandered down to the River Torrens today, such a beautiful Autumn day in Adelaide and thought I would get that postcard shot* as I sat on the bank the swans came right up to me and the lightness and texture became my photo of the day, the postcard shot will have to wait until another day (maybe tomorrow)

Postcard shot: those shots of our hometowns that we avoid because they are on the postcards in the tourist shops but as soon as we are in a different city we look at taking those very shots.

(Maybe we need to look at our hometowns as a tourist would?!?!?)

 

Day 110... breaking through

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

Rene Daumal

It rained thoughout the night and then this morning with the dawn the rain stopped and the sun broke through the clouds, giving us yet another beautiful Autumn day

Day 109... Autumn days

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Day 104...

falling leaves

hide the path

so quietly

~John Bailey, "Autumn,"

the days are getting shorter and the leaves are falling from the trees, colours are changing but the weather is still nice... Autumn is here and it is a beautiful season.

My thanks to a dear friend, who gave me a memory card to keep in my purse (as I would often be caught without a card having left it in the computer) and with out that memory card this photo would not have been because once again I forgot the card

Day 79... autumn days

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky. 

 These leaves never got the chance to fly into the sky... my beautiful, two year old, nephew collected them for me so I just had to take photos of them.

Day 65... things are changing

Today's photo has been taken on my iPhone, I had taken photos earlier in the day and while they were not perfect I was happy but as I sat enjoying a drink with friends I saw this and just knew that I had a new photo of the day...

Autumn has began and the leaves are changing...