October 22, 2012

"Y" I Love Fall

This morning I started my week with a class at the "Y."  I was there a few minutes early and found myself staring out the window of Studio A.  This is the view from there on this beautiful autumn day.  
I zoomed in just a little so that you could appreciate how beautiful the mountains in the distance are with their colorful foliage.  There's also lots of nice deep reds and rusts in Biltmore Park.  The view from the front side of the building is always nice, as BP is really a picture perfect little town center.  It does make me a little sad, though because in a week or two all the trees will be bare.

As of this weekend, we are past the date of the average first frost here, a reminder that any day now I could wake up to all the annual plants on our slope gone.  With that in mind, I took a picture of the sourwood tree in our neighbor's yard, which has turned scarlet.  It's a nice contrast to the darker boughs on the tree to the left and the bare bark of the tree to the right.

And one of the casualties to the first frost will be our elephant ears, which sprouted up very tall this summer.   Here are some of them toward the top of our slope.  They dominated when everything was lush this summer, but now that things are being trimmed back and dying back, they look even larger!

As I was taking the picture of the elephant ears, I noticed a single yellow day lily in bloom in front of the ornamental grass clump.  So here it is... one of the last blooms of 2012!