Remnants of a Colorful Autumn

Amid the snow and ice remain a few splashes of color, holdouts from the autumn that wouldn't let go.


Tiny ice crystals adorn these tiny red leaves, gently illuminated by the rising sun.
No, this picture is not sideways - the plant was leaning.


A pair of yellow leaves battered but still clinging to their mother branch.

Late Fall

Autumn will soon give way to winter. The last of the intensely colored leaves, still clinging to their branches against a backdrop of dimly lit piles of color on the ground.


A few leaves shone brightly in a beam of sunlight filtering through breaks in the passing storm clouds.













Some leaves still remain on the Japanese Maple trees.


Blue sky is revealed, however briefly, between storms. Large maples still holding most of their leaves, now illuminated in their bright yellow-orange hues.


Even the shrubs put on a display.


Firewood stacked for the coming winter.




Fallen leaves are still very pretty.


Tiny mushrooms grow from garden debris as it is consumed by the flames.