Radically Retired

Tag: Trees

  • Late Greens

    Late Greens

    My Sept 09 post featured a bridge photo framed by foreground shrubs in their autumn colours.

    The scene in that photo is the exception this year, and you’ll notice that beyond the bridge, the trees are still quite green.

    I caught today’s feature photo about 20 minutes before the one of the bridge.

    Today’s photo demonstrates how the late August and early September rains in this area, along with mild temperatures, have largely delayed the turning of the leaves.

    Usually, by this time of year, autumn is in its full show regalia of yellows, golds, reds, and oranges.

    I love the green because it gives the feeling of extended summer and possibly delayed frost.

    An unfortunate thing about the extended summer appearance is that our farmers are struggling to get the crops in and the fields that were swathed but not yet combined are losing quality by the day.

    What looked to be an upcoming bumper crop (our way of saying a huge and high grade yield), in many cases will be lucky if it meets feed grade.

    Agriculture is one of the main drivers of our economy, so if our farmers suffer, so do we all.

    We also have many friends and family members who farm. It’s their livelihood, so we truly feel for them in a year such as this.

  • I Won’t Ask

    I Won’t Ask

    On a recent daybreak walk, I noticed that our city’s historical court house (built in 1928 and designated as a provincial heritage property) was nicely framed on two levels by the foreground trees.

    There was no traffic at that time of day, so I felt safe to inch back and forth on the middle of the street, trying to get a balanced shot of the framing of both the main entrance with its front lawn fountain and the central cupola at the top.

    Unfortunately, the unruly tree branches didn’t fully cooperate for the photo I saw in my mind’s eye, but this was the closest one of several attempts.

    I wonder if the city maintenance crew would trim those branches on the left a bit for me.

    It’s fun to imagine that I could be so influential for the sake of a photograph, but no, I won’t ask.

  • 🎶Gee It’s Good to be Back Home Again🎶

    🎶Gee It’s Good to be Back Home Again🎶

    This past week, we were away for a few days, visiting friends and family in the place we called home for over 20 years.

    Whenever we round the curve in my feature photo, I breathe a big sigh of relief and have the same sense of “home” that I had when we first moved to the area.

    Even though I was raised on the southern prairies, I’m sure it was the proximity to the northern tree line that welcomed and comforted me.

  • Inspiration

    Inspiration

    Thanks to my blogging friend Betty for reminding me of the tree man in our yard long ago, before we sold our home and retired to condo life.

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