Weekly Photo Challenge : PEACEFUL

Falling for Fall

Fall is my absolute favorite season, especially in upstate NY.  I know I have blogged about it before, which you can read here  and here.  I am feeling so thankful that I have come to NY right now, as the leaves reached their peak color during the change. It has been such a beautiful and breathtaking site to take in these last 2 weeks, and I have taken tons of pictures to remember it by.  Here are some of my favorites:

I am just in LOVE with the beauty around me…..almost makes me not want to go back to CA…almost.

Weekly Photo Challenge : FALL

Fall is my absolute FAVORITE time of year.  It is what I miss the most about living in NY.  There was such a crispness in the air, the beauty of the leaves changing colors, the crunching sound of the leaves underfoot, that had fallen from the trees, the colorful pumpkins, the brightness of the sunflowers, the crunch of crisp, sweet apples, and the smell of fresh apple pies baking from the apples you just picked.  It would send me into a heavenly sensory overload!  The good news, for me, is that I am going back there next month, and hopefully will get to experience it again.  The good news for you, is that I have put together a few collages to represent  some of my favorites about Fall, so if you don’t live near it, at least you can visually see what I’m talking about.

What is your favorite thing about Fall?

Simplify 8/103

8. Appreciate art in many forms. Not just paintings and music. But teacher’s lessons, and blogs posts, and crisp, fall mornings.

This year has taught me to really appreciate art through written word, cooking, and photography, mostly.  I have developed several blogging friendships and blog buddies, I enjoy reading the many blogs I am subscribed to, which has also given me inspiration for some of my posts (including this simplify series), and I have been working on improving my own writing skills (see my Poetry In Motion tab).  I have been cooking a lot more and experimenting with my recipes.  My main form of artistic expression is usually through my photography. I still haven’t been able to find any classes to take for photography, but keep trying to challenge myself with the composition and with editing.   A couple days ago, I also got to view art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and was exposed to so many various types of art.  I am hoping that when I go back to NY in October, I will arrive with the change of seasons, my most favorite time of year there, and be surrounded by an amazing canvas of color and texture and smell with the trees and the crisp, fall air. Life in LA is always so busy and seems to be the same routine over and over, that I often can miss the beauty and art surrounding us.

 

What is your favorite kind of art or way to express yourself artistically?

Weekly Photo Challenge : TEXTURE

 

Weekly Photo Challenge : PATH

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

…Robert Frost