I look up.
I look down.
I look back.
And I look all around.
Alberta doesn’t get the same range of fall colours that make Central and Eastern Canada so lovely at this time of year, but sometimes one colour is enough.
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On the third one you got me at trees over the road. Sublime.
Barbara – 🙂 Trees that large are rare in Calgary (anywhere in Alberta, I guess) and are found only in the older areas of the city. It was that view that got me started.
I am amazed that merely looking at the photos I have a sense of levitation and floating through this golden paradise. The reflections are unfathomable like some oriental silk designs but not less lovely for that drift towards abstraction. The branches of the great trees appear to be bearing a burden of gold almost too heavy to support until you remember that flake by flake it will flutter and fall away.
Laurna – I guess all seasons are transient, but somehow autumn’s beauty seems more so – or more poignant.
Good timing on your visit to Edmonton. I recall the leaves falling earlier than this. Here in the Okanagan, leaves are hanging onto their twigs tenaciously still — more greens than yellows, and very few reds.
Jim T
Jim T – This view was actually Calgary, but the timing point holds. I was surprised to see a fair representation of orange leaves in newer parts of the City: columnar aspens, which were new to me altogether and especially as trees grown in Calgary.
Beautiful photos, Isabel.
Glad you’re enjoying western nature at its finest.
Tom
Tom – 🙂 Many thanks.
These are beautiful photos!
Mary – Many thanks.