Saturday, October 8, 2011

Shadow Shot Sunday!

Get out the magnifying glass, get into your best sleuthing clothes and start prowling your environment looking for those wonderful, but sometimes elusive shadows. This fun and challenging meme is hosted each week by Tracy over at Hey Harriet! Click on the link under the blog title and sign up to play!!

I was amazed yesterday as I was walking around the neighborhood to see so many trees turning and so many beautiful colors.  I do love this time of year! Hope you are enjoying a beautiful weekend. Here is some of our color for the season.
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse

 

34 comments:

  1. Those red trees are gorgeous! Our trees haven't turned yet, but I'm waiting. :)

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  2. Oh my goodness Sylvia...that tree is amazing in the first shot! How pretty! Our trees are starting to turn....can't wait!!

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  3. Autumn is my favorite season and your tree photos have brightened my morning. Gorgeous colors! Our Autumn just started here on the west coast.

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  4. The shadow on the modern architecture is quite cool, a modernist building and shadow, too. I am drawn even more to the shadows of the old neighborhood - that first home has a neat Tudor style, the trees are older and even more elegant on this street. It is so classy in subject and shadow! Have a nice week!

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  5. Just L-O-v-E the bright Autumn colors and the cool tree shadows that they aford us! The first SS is my fave. Happy SSS!

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  6. Wonderful shadows, as always, Sylvia. You certainly have a knack for these shots, and we all get to enjoy them. Thanks!

    Kay, Alberta, Canada
    An Unfittie’s Guide to Adventurous Travel

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  7. Fabulous autumn colours ..... and I love the dahlias - my Dad used to grow them when I was little.

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  8. that first tree is a red-headed moppet! love it!

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  9. What amazing trees - fabulous colour!

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  10. wow the colours on those trees are magnificent!!

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  11. Wow, Sylvia, you did capture some great color here, and you're sunnier than us today! That first tree is incredible.

    I'm sure I'll take Socks out in the snow after it stops - it's been coming down all day. Hopefully you and Sam will see some this winter!

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  12. I like the shadows on the deck, but the trees are truly amazing. We don't have anything nearly that colorful out here.

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  13. Beautiful pictures, I love them all. How beautiful, is not which to choose. Happy Sunday.

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  14. I saw this tree already on another blog, it's just amazing they look like fire balls on a trunk !

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  15. I just love fall foliage colors. I hope that you are having a great weekend. I DVR's the OU Texas game. I always enjoy OU beating UT.

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  16. WOW..! Colorful and gorgeous pictures.. I love these quotes as well..! Thanks Sylvia!

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  17. Such stunning views and such intense light. Very beautiful, Sylvia. You always make my day. Thank you.

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  18. Red trees and bright Yellow flowers! Wow! What a wonderful, colorful, shadowy post...
    Have a fabulous Sunday Sylvia:)

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  19. The trees in the first two photos are like a fountain of colour! Stunning! And love the play of light and shadow in the following photos!

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  20. Oh, MY! All are such magnificent shots! That first tree is off the charts! Such brilliant reds! Yes, fall is starting it's riot of color here-mostly yellows though. I hope you are doing well!

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  21. the trees are amazing
    and the lines on the deck are beautiful

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  22. Wonderful Fall color Sylvia! We doh't have nearly that here yet. I am hoping for it -- soon!

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  23. Wonderful fall colours my friend. The first looks like a Japanese maple and the second like those dark leafed prunus. Delicious dahlia too.

    I hope you are having the time of your life!
    I am managing somehow, when needs must . . . before I can go to my sister, I have to have a large molar that is misbehaving, extracted. That should be fun with my super thin blood. With my replaced valves it is too risky to leave it till it blows it's top. They do say troubles never come alone, I guess they too need company.

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  24. Wow! - gorgeous colours - and - yes, I do see the shadows as well;)

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  25. Very beautiful shots. The last one, so cheerful. :)

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  26. All of these very very beautiful. I love the sayings too! Autumn colors have been so vibrant around here as well. I say Have been, because the last 2 days the wind has stripped the trees clean of their leaves. But there is still beauty in the children playing in the piles in the yard. Very nice Ms. Sylvia.

    Peace

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  27. Wow! The colors in these photos are outstanding - especially that red tree!!

    I like your pup's hidden bedroom. :)

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  28. "Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."

    perfect quote. love the first tree photo. i just love trees!!

    have a wonderful rest of the weekend sylvia!!

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  29. A truly awesome post. All the sights are breathtaking. That tree about blew my mind. It is gorgeous. We have no sights like these in Texas.

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  30. Yup, it's the loveliest last smile days of the year. Incredible red wonders.

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  31. Amazing colors!
    We're behind you - most of our leaves are yellow, only a few red ones. But it's getting colder at night later this week and more red will be here too.
    Have a good week Sylvia!

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