Today I am continuing my series of posts on sources of Creative Inspiration with a focus on the beauty of Fall/Autumn – my favorite season. This post is also a sort of follow up to Thursday’s post Shinrin-Yoku: The Japanese Art and Science of Forest Bathing, as this post is primarily focused on trees!
I love all seasons in Central Oregon and I feel blessed to live in a place where I can experience all four seasons.
Our mid-summers are often hot and for the past couple of years we’ve had to deal with residual smoke from forest fires from Northern California, Washington state, British Columbia or even Oregon forests. Usually by late summer and early summer, the forest fire smoke has cleared and the weather has suddenly cooled.
As the weather cools, suddenly the beautiful colors of Autumn appear as the leaves Central Oregon deciduous trees change into spectacular shades of green, gold, yellow, orange, red, and purple!This is not the first time I posted about Autumn in Central Oregon and how it inspires me. Here are a couple previous posts for you to check out, filled with images of the beauty of our Fall:
I even love the falling leaves, strewn about everywhere:
Of course Terry the Quilting Husband (TTQH) is not a huge fan of Fall leaves as he is the one who spends time gathering them together to put into our yard waste recycling!
I could ramble on at this point about the beauty of Autumn, but let’s turn the rest of this post into a “photo essay” and let the photos speak for themselves…
As you can see in the photo above, I appreciate the beauty of the bare trees once all their leaves have fallen. Autumn is glorious and full of color inspiration!
Postscript
I knew I loved trees but recently I realized just how much I love trees – the “Welcome” sign at my front door is even tree themed:
I ordered it online and there were many “Welcome” signs to select from. I guess subliminally I was attracted to the one that had to do with trees!
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. – Frank Lloyd Wright
The trees are gorgeous, Tierney! It has been wonderful reading your posts every day this month! Happy 5th!
-Jean💟
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Thank so much Jean, I really appreciate it! 🙂
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Amazing colour … that must be an awful lot of leaves to clear!!
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Oh yes! Thanks for your comment 🙂
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Wow! Your leaves are ahead of ours in Western NC!
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Gorgeous photos and enjoy the autumn! It’s still quite green here, but the first red tinges are starting to appear.
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Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoying Autumn with me 🙂
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My favorite time of the year to go outside and explore. Thanks for sharing
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Thanks so much for stopping by 🙂
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I told someone I was going to take a tree bath–she immediately imagine a place where bathtubs were up in trees (a variation on tree houses). Ha! That might be the Next Big Thing!
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You know that sounds pretty awesome! Maybe you got to a new business potential😉
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They are beautiful, Tierney. I can see how they inspire you. Those Autumn colours are definitely your colours.
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Autumn looks gorgeous in your region. Great eye for spectacular colours – I find it hard not to feel a little giddy with all of the new colours on the trees these days and that crisp little kick in the air. It really is something to savour. 🙂
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Personally, I am a fan of winter, but I can appreciate the fall foliage. I want to thank you for blogging everyday because it gives me an opportunity to come up with thoughtful and witty responses. I have never been to Oregon so I get a little insight into life of an Oregonite or Oreganian. Or maybe organic. Either way. there is a quilt design that includes trees waiting to happen.
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Oh, oh, what beautiful photographs
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Treeeeeeees! I could happily look at fall colours all day, and your local area is putting on quite the show. Beautiful photos!
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Thanks for sharing the lovely colors with me (or colours they say on your side of the pond, ha!) 🙂
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