Here are two more photographs from today’s late-day ramble down Piney Woods Church Road, in the time of day photographers call the “golden hour” before sunset. The first is of leaves of Chinese wisteria; the second is a nondescript shrub aglow with light.
On my Piney Woods Church Road walk this morning, I found new growth everywhere I looked. These new leaves seem to glow from within with the vitality of springtime.
In the early morning, new leaves are aflame with color and light. I set out looking for frost, but I found fire instead.
From my visit to a peach orchard in Culloden, Georgia, here are a few sunset photographs from yesterday.
Across central Georgia, peach trees are coming into bloom. Yesterday, my wife and I drove to Culloden, Georgia (west of Macon), to take some late-day photographs among the blossoms. Here are a few images from that trip.
Here is another abstract photograph from late this afternoon along Piney Woods Church Road. A ball of light seems to hover between two branches of a shrub on the left side of the photograph. I enjoy the blurred colors here — the green of magnolia leaves and the patch of blue sky.
Wandering down Piney Woods Church Road late this afternoon, I passed a driveway all aglow with moss sporophytes, with their globe-like capsules perched atop stalks, called seta, reaching high above the leafy gametophytes. (That sentence, I realize, begs a lesson in the moss life cycle, but I will instead refer curious readers here.) The yellow-green of this sporophyte carpet betokens the impending arrival of spring (although not before another cold spell visits the region this Wednesday).
After a string of cloudy days, skies cleared by mid-morning today. By the time I got outside late in the afternoon, it was cloudy again. The result, though, was this photograph, so I don’t mind.
As sunset approaches on a late-winter day, a distant sweetgum stands silhouetted against a mountain made of clouds.
Three red greenbrier leaves stand out vibrantly against the forest background on Piney Woods Church Road. After a cloudy spell, the late-day sun shone magnificently through the trees. Much though I eagerly embrace the spring, there is much beauty to the bare branches and lingering leaves of these late winter days.
