It’s getting all autumnal up here in the northern hemisphere, while down in the southern hemisphere everyone’s looking forward to spring. Whichever hemisphere you inhabit, now is a fantastic time to get out and have a look at what the trees are doing. Whether they’re about to burst into life with fresh green growth, or starting to adorn themselves in their autumn glory; even if they’re still wearing their evergreen needles, it’s a wonderful time to go leaf peeping. Here are a few photos I’ve taken that let foliage take centre stage.
The leafy entrance to the Moongate Garden; part of the Edith B. Haupt Gardens in Washington DC.
Bird-filled branches in Snug Harbor on New York’s Staten Island.
Leafy trees casting long shadows as the sun sets over the hills of northern California.
And last, but not least, a lovely array of leaves peeping over a wall in Antigua, Guatemala.
So get your best foliage photos out and celebrate leaves. If you’d like to join in, create your own post and call it Travel Theme: Foliage. Put a link to this page in your post so others can find it.
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Happy leaf peeping!
xxx Ailsa
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Thanks for the invite!
Wonderful shot, Ileana, that solitary apple looks so lonely amongst the leaves!
Thank you Ailsa! Here is my entry 🙂
A lovely series of foliage shots, Britten! Glad you joined in this week. xxx
Thanks for the invite Ailsa! Here’s what I came up with:http://travelbugdownunder.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/
Great post, oztravelbug, I love the before and after of Steavenson Falls – I have to say, it looks pretty good only two years after the Black Saturday fires, Mother Nature seems to have taken back a lot of territory!
Yes, it is amazing what Mother Nature can do!
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Wow, this is stunning, shimmering grains, such a wonderful shot!
Thanks Ailsa for liking my photo. And of yours, I really like the Moongate Garden. Even the name is cool. It’s a pretty photo that made me look thrice.
It was a pretty special place, Trish, if you’re in DC I hope you get a chance to visit it. Still smiling at your photo of the tree climber.
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Hi Ailsa!
Here’s mine: https://joknut.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/weekly-travel-theme-foliage/
I hope it passes the category. Yay. :))
Lots of lovely green from the Phillipines, thanks for joining in this week’s travel theme, JokeL 🙂
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Excellent, Rowena, that stray bit of cow parsley makes all the difference! 🙂
Hi Alisa. Thank you for the challenge. Here is my entry:
Beautiful, buntscheck, there is a really gorgeous quality to the light in this photo. xxx
Thank you 🙂
LOVE the Nor Cal oaks picture especially, as I lived in the oak woodlands of Mendocino and Sonoma and Marin Counties when I got some of my best writing done =) Here’s my contribution, hope ya’ll enjoy:
–Love and Liberation–
Jan
Oh Jan, these are great, they make me want to hop in the car and drive to Joshua Tree right now!
I know me too! Thank you!! ❤ Either this week or next, my Pictorial Highlight is going to be Joshua Tree =)
Looking forward to it, Jan!
Have so many I could submit to this category, but here’s a seasonal offering : http://looneyatoms.com/2012/09/30/weekly-photo-theme-foliage/
Thanks for the theme 🙂
Glad you joined in, Barbara, a really fun photo! 🙂
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Ooh, I love it, Sara, that single solitary frosty leaf, how absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for joining in this week’s travel theme! xxx
..and here is a sketch i’d drawn previously on my computer, with a mouse, that fits the theme “Foliage” 🙂 — http://niranjanshukla.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/tropical-a-sketch/
Excellent, very clever, Niranjan! Thanks for joining in! 🙂
I love your themes and follow back ideas, they’re really awesome.
Yaay, glad you like them, Rachel! Hope you join in. 🙂
Hey! Thanks for droppin by and leaving a comment. Will certainly join in :). This theme is great.
By the way, just noticed that your name is really similar to mine Ailsa, well my name is Alissa. (Off topic, but i just can’t help but bring it up ^__^
Nice to make your acquaintance, Alissa – yes, your name is really similar to mine. I haven’t yet met anyone else called Ailsa 🙂
your a wildflower 🙂
you own the name! no one else ^__^
I love that! 😉
Loving the leafy theme. Here’s mine: http://juliedawnfox.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/
Hurray, so glad you joined in, Julie, lovely shots from central Portugal, that top one looking out over that wonderful vista is lovely!
Thanks, Ailsa. It’s taken just around the corner from my house so this is my daily view!
Ailsa
Thanks for visiting my blog. I worked on Staten Island for many years and had been to Snug Harbor only a handful of times. All the best to you.
Snug Harbor was a lot of fun, Victor, but the real gem on Staten Island was High Rock Park; such a lovely little park. xxx
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Thanks for the invitation to take part. I’ve got two related entries. The first one is here with the story
http://chittlechattle.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/
and another view here.
Ooh, this looks like an incredible place, nuvofelt. How wonderful that you got a private visit, I bet it’s stunning.
Ailsa, thanks for the invitation! 🙂
Here’s my entry:
Aagh, Joelle, those elephants are awesome! So cool. 🙂
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I struggled with this week’s theme. Perhaps I need to take more pictures of flowers and trees?
Naw, I doubt you struggled with this theme, mostlymonochrome, great shot as always and please, stick to photographing what you do – I’m still in awe of your smoke stack sunset!
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Such a pretty shot, Rhea; the lighting is so delicate and I love the shadows you captured on the ground too. So glad you joined in this week’s theme! xxx
Living in the tropics means it’s green all the time.
Ooh, how lovely. Lush and tropical and ever so romantic 🙂
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Beautiful post, Ailsa. I loved the bird filled tree and third pic captures the play of light and shadows so well. Awesome!
Here’s mine for this theme: http://deetoursbydeepali.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/lush-is-the-monsoon-foliage/
Really lovely photos, Deepali. The first and fourth are my favourites, lovely composition. Also, thank you for the lesson on where the word monsoon came from, I never knew that. Great post! xxx
Thanks, that’s very encouraging, Ailsa. Love your travel themes as they really inspire me to write a post, so please keep on inspiring 🙂
First time i am entering, here it is.
http://chrisbreebaart.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage-in-france/
Hi Chris, so glad you joined in this week – what a lovely part of the world you photographed. I love the huge array of different foliage in your photo (and of course that wonderful blue/purple hydrangea) xxx
Thank you for asking in the first place! Glad you like the picture! I took several of that setting during the week, there is something in that view that is appealing.
Thanks for the challenge. Here’s my take. http://lonelytravelog.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/
Hi Hero, welcome to the weekly travel challenge. I love those trees reflected in the water, and lovely writing too. xxx
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Hi! Here’s my entry: http://megtraveling.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/
Lovely photos, Meg, isn’t the Rhine amazing? Best castles ever!
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Thanks for the invitation, I am taking you to the desert for a peek:
http://patriciaddrury.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/
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Here’s my entry! Thanks for the invitation. 🙂
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I have internet! Thanks for the challenge 😀
I love the birds btw, very sweet.
Ailsa,
Love the birds!! They look so soft I’d like to reach out and touch them. 🙂
Me too, Sue 🙂
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Done, thank you
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Hi, Ailsa! I’m in —
Yaay, lovely view of the Tucson mountains, Touch. xxx
nice post, hope to seee your new one sooon,
Thanks iraben, hope you join in the travel theme sometime! 🙂
yes i want and i want to travel to see many place in the world
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