Autumn Color #5

Turkey Ridge Road - Greene County, Virginia 

"Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested" - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Autumn Color #4

Greene County, Virginia

Autumn Color #3

Greene County, Virginia

Autumn Color #2

Oak leaves - Greene County, Virginia

Autumn Color #1

Greene County, Virginia 

This week we are going to be looking at the last of the Autumn colors here at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. These pictures were taken just before hurricane Sandy hit. The fall colors have been somewhat muted this year, partly because the trees lost a lot of their leaves before the colors peaked. The storm stripped even more leaves, but there are still patches of color here and there, mostly in the understory trees.

Lauri Ellen

All of the black and white pictures of Mystic Seaport this week were taken on a trip to New England in September, 1989. This picture was taken on that same trip somewhere on Cape Cod. I don't remember shooting any color film on that trip so most likely my wife photographed this little flat-bottomed dingy.  The black and white of Mystic Seaport was shot on Kodak Plus-X with my Pentax MX SLR, which I still have and use.

If you were in Sandy's path, I hope that recovery is well under way, your lights are back on and life is returning to normal. Enjoy your weekend, don't forget to set back your clocks Sunday morning, and as always, thanks for reading Photography In Place.

Mystic Seaport #3

Mystic, Connecticut