Evening Light on Nova Scotia Autumn Colours

As Sam Gamgee said on returning to Bag End, “I’m back!” Sorry for the lapse in posts. Summer flew by in a blur of gardening and writing and playing piano. But now, before autumn releases her hold and yields to oncoming winter, I’ll share a few of my favourite photos taken during the ‘golden season.’

Rainbow and Autumn Leaves, Nova Scotia

Here in Nova Scotia, autumn is a time of breathtaking and sometimes heart-rending beauty. Glorious maples flame red, yellow, orange, and burgundy, while aspens and birches jiggle golden coins. Stately oaks hang bronze from their limbs, and staghorn sumacs and wild roses blaze with cherry fire. To say our autumn landscape is a feast for the eye is to pay it meager compliment. It washes over us in waves of searing colour from highest hill to lowest marsh, from treetop to forest floor. Blueberry fields roll plum and cerise across swales. Pasture greens are tipped with oranged lemon. Goldenrod meadows decay to rust.

Yummy Apples

Autumn beauty is found also in the garden’s bounty – in russeted and gleaming red apples, in voluptuous squashes and pumpkins with ‘come-hither’ twisted stems, in the pungent, earthy scent of black currants, in the gleaming purple skins of eggplants, in the myriad kidneys of baking beans, in the nodding, seed-weighted heads of giant sunflowers. And so much more.

My Squashes and Pumpkins

My gardens are put to bed. Evergreens rise sturdily deep and dark against bare limbs of deciduous neighbours. Rain showers cavort with snow flurries. We stand on the edge of winter with its kiss of cold white beauty. But winter comes not yet. Still more leaves must fall.

Fallen Leaves

Here I am with my pumpkins.

If you enjoyed this post, check out my guest post today,”Writing As Autumn Slides Toward Winter,” at the Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada blog site: http://atlantic-canada-romance-writers.blogspot.ca/

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