A lone brown and shriveled leaf of a sweetgum stands proudly against a backdrop of trees and sky on a late autumn early afternoon somewhere along Piney Woods Church Road.
Dec 122014
Dec 112014
Whenever I am in need of new inspiration, I seek out the muscadine vines along Piney Woods Church Road. The leaves and tendrils offer endless possibilities. Here are two images from this afternoon’s walk.
Dec 112014
On my afternoon ramble down Piney Woods Church Road today, I paused to photograph the very last leaf on a roadside pin cherry. After taking several shots of it, I reached up and touched it gently with my fingertips. It fell away from the branch tip, onto the waiting road edge.
Dec 102014
The wood oats have ripened now along Piney Woods Church Road. As the autumn and winter advance, seeds will slowly detach from the seed heads and disperse to the surrounding woods and fields.
Dec 022014
What a glorious afternoon it was along Piney Woods Church Road! A few clouds appeared in otherwise blue skies, and the temperature soared into the mid-70s. I had a busy day filled with errands, but took a few minutes to explore the light along the road, transfiguring leaves into pages of illuminated manuscripts. The relics of nature’s grace are all around me, in such stunning forms as white oak and greenbrier leaves infused with sunlight.
Nov 292014
Along Piney Woods Church Road, I encounter a water oak tree whose leaves glow with colored light in the sunlight of late afternoon. From behind, the join where three come together reminds me of a pinwheel.
Nov 282014
After many hours of online work, I set out down Piney Woods Church Road in search of something new to photograph. I repeated to myself again and again that I would not photograph any more leaves. I have photographed dozens of them, and it was time for something different. In the late-afternoon light, I photographed threads of spiderweb on hoary mountainmint and strands of horse hair on a barbed wire fence. But at the end of the day, it is these two images of illuminated autumn leaves that I find most compelling, as they catch a bit of the lingering light of a late autumn evening.
Nov 272014
On a dark, overcast, chilly Thanksgiving afternoon, I am grateful for a trio of greenbrier leaves that provided me with a moment of wonder as I made my way down Piney Woods Church Road.
Nov 252014
Today’s photographs from a late afternoon Piney Woods Church Road visit include two images of sky: first, as seen through a hole in a greenbrier leaf, and second, as reflected in a drainage ditch alongside the road. The tree in the reflection is a pecan, already leafless as winter draws nearer.
Nov 232014
Between rainshowers today, I dashed out t take a few pictures of water droplet suspended from branches. Most did not turn out as hoped, but I enjoy this one quite a bit, with a colorful blurred leaf outline in the background. I took this photograph around noon; since then, skies have remained overcast with dark gray, accompanied by much-needed rain.
I also include a second photograph — yet another muscadine leaf, covered with water droplets. It doesn’t quite go with the oak — though it does, at least, grow with the oak. Yet it doesn’t quite seem to merit its own post, at the same time.
