A Harvestman (Daddy Longlegs) waits patiently in the autumn sunshine on a Hoary Mountainmint leaf along Piney Woods Church Road.
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Oct 222014
A small late-season bee is hard at work pollinating the goldenrod along Piney Woods Church Road in this image from earlier today.
Oct 222014
On a sunny, blue-sky Wednesday afternoon, I returned to one of my favorite subjects along Piney Woods Church Road — strands of horsehair in a barbed wire fence. Here, they catch the light (and breeze) to become flowing, cosmic forms.
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An oak leaf is illuminated by the morning sun, somewhere along Piney Woods Church Road.
Oct 202014
Asters of an unidentified species (there are simply too many possibilities out there) continue to bloom along the roadside down Piney Woods Church Road.
Oct 202014
Until this project, I had never really noticed, much less appreciated, the brilliant red of the sassafras leaves in autumn, accentuated by the way many of the leaves remain green while others abruptly turn.
Oct 192014
A black cherry leaf, against blue sky, photographed on my Piney Woods Church Road saunter earlier today….
Oct 192014
I ventured out to Piney Woods Church Road shortly after noon today, and photographed this sweetgum leaf partially illuminated by the sun. In its pale green and dun spaces, I imagine a satellite image of another land, containing verdant forests and stark deserts.
Oct 182014
I could fill entire walls with images of muscadine leaves; or, of course, I could wander into my own backyard, where muscadine blankets practically everything. Another image from this afternoon’s Piney Woods Church Road ramble.
Oct 182014
I have never been particularly fond of Nepalese Brown-Top, a sort of miniature bamboo that is almost as invasive as the real thing. I have walked many a woodland with this grass as the dominant ground cover. The leaves are relatively uninteresting, the flowers minute and pink. But now, in the midst of autumn, a handful of the leaves are turning a brilliant red, while the others persist in green. What an unexpected plant to reveal the beauty of the autumn time!
