catch a ray
pass it on
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© 150404-038 Poplar Leaf
Liriodendron tulipifera
Stone Mountain Park
Saturday 04 April 2015
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Leaves at work
21 March 2015
a gift from
the first day of Spring
© 150320-014 Bottlebrush Buckeye
Aesculus parviflora
Stone Mountain Park
Friday 20 March 2015
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Rain-soaked
Winter tan and brown
Soaked with rainbows
© 150112-002 Rain-soaked Trail
Stone Mountain Park
Monday 12 January 2015
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No Time for Torpor
American Beech
In silver light.
© 141127-006 Last to Fall
Fagus grandifolia
Stone Mountain Park
Thursday 27 November 2014
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The Repose
Suspended in
delicate resignation.
© 141122-005 Common Cat Brier
Smilax rotundifolia
Stone Mountain Park
Saturday 22 November 2014
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The Cradle
I have lived long enough.
My way of life is fall'n into the sere,
the yellow leaf.
Macbeth. Act 5, Scene 3.
© 141114-004 Big Leaf
Magnolia macrophylla
Stone Mountain Park
Friday 14 November 2014
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Heart size.
Simplicity, the guise.
Elegance, the prize.
Heart size.
© 141110-007 Redbud Leaf
Cercis canadensis
Stone Mountain Park
Monday 10 November 2014
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Leaf Works
Towering Chestnut Oak with
Magnificently furrowed bark
Sustains a delicate leaf.
© 141110-005 Chestnut Oak
Quercus prinus
Stone Mountain Park
Monday 10 November 2014
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Trails by Klimt
Stroll November trails
From the brush of Gustav Klimt.
© 141108-005 Trail with Colors
Stone Mountain Park
Saturday 08 November 2014
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Composing with color
The Fall palette
with goldenrod spice
brews escapist tea.
© 141107-001 Fall Palette
Stone Mountain Park
Friday 07 November 2014
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Shrubs need love too
This Winged Sumac, and its sister Sumacs, sometimes take a hit for suspected toxic berries (not true) and the shrub's relentless drive to invade and overtake old fields and natural areas. Standing here, I prefer to admire its capacity, each chilly Fall night, to create a flood of anthocyanins, the pigments responsible for these intense reds temporarily stippled across the granite outcrop.
© 141101-008 Winged Sumac
Rhus copallinum
Stone Mountain Park
Saturday 01 November 2014
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On Fire
Blazing colors
Melt the light.
© 141027-012 Red Maple
Acer rubrum
Stone Mountain Park
Monday 27 October 2014
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Lookin' for YOU
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Late at night while you're sleepin'
Poison ivy comes a-creepin'
The Coasters, August 1959
Lyrics: Leiber and Stoller
© 141026-011 Poison Ivy
Toxicodendron radicans
Stone Mountain Park
Sunday 26 October 2014
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I may have to yell
In the Annals of Fall leaf color
Is not the simple Sycamore
Seriously under appreciated.
Just sayin'…
© 141025-006 Sycamore Leaf
Platanus occidentalis
Stone Mountain Park
Saturday 25 October 2014
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The Carotenoids
As nighttime lengthens and daylight hours decline chlorophyll production in each leaf slows, and will eventually stop. The remaining greens gradually decay exposing agreeable yellow pigments in the plant tissue, present all along, patiently waiting for their moment to blaze. Fall colors were never a big secret to the Carotenoids as this hickory leaf can attest.
© 141019-001 Mockernut Hickory
Carya tomentosa
Stone Mountain Park
Sunday 19 October 2014
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