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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Ailsa, thank you for the invite. I would love to join…don’t think I have a lot of foliage photos though…never lived and rarely travel to a place that has a distinctive autumn season. Let me look into my photos…
Excellent, I’d love you to join in, but it doesn’t have to be autumn, foodnotherstuff – it can be any time of year at all 🙂
Are flowers included in the definition of foliage? Sorry if this sounds silly, but I just get lost in translation sometimes…you know, english not being my first language …hahaha
Foliage usually refers to leaves only, but if you’ve got some flower photos that show leaves too, go ahead and use them 🙂 And your English is great!
Thanks for clarifying that…and your kind words 😉
Consider me in – I am adding a travel theme for foliage to http://www.anitamacphotos.wordpress.com – thanks for the suggestion!
Wow, that colour is intense, I love it, Anita!
Thank you for the kind invitation which I duly accept. However I have chosen to submit a poem I wrote and posted sometime ago. It is not about foliage in particular more about a lady; me who visits a favela. Although this is a good image. I like it and feel it relates more to your blog and its essense of travel; something I have not embraced fully in my blog. I prefer to keep the journey theme so that I need not travel beyond my front door when the weather is inclement and funds are low!! 🙂
Lovely poem, Helen, and yes, it really does relate to the essence of travel!
I will keep following XXX and Posting
Nice shots! I just posted mine photos, one each from Thailand, Mongolia and Siberia. http://vivianesview.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/#more-600
Thanks for letting me know about the theme 🙂
Hi Viv, lovely shots, that tree house is awesome! The best thing about these themes is all the great people you get to meet and swap tales with – just had a look at your blog, what an amazing trip you’re on! xxx Ailsa
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Great theme and lovely photos! Here’s mine Autumn in Turkey http://citylifepicture.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-theme-foliage/
Love these themes. Thanks 🙂
Ooh, this is such a luscious shot, absolutely wonderful!
Thank you again for the invitation. Here is my offering which is Australian spring foliage. http://issheright.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-theme-foliage/. 🙂
Lovely spring shots, Jillian, the apple tree is my fave!
Thank you. There are some wonderful photos here.
Love the theme! Many thanks for your visit and the invite!
Great pics, I’ll try to come up with something 🙂
Looking forward to your post, Eclipse!
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A touch of Australian foliage for you Ailsa! Enjoy!
http://madoqua.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-challenge-foliage/
Wonderful, Madoqua, the grass trees are amazing! Lovely post!
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Great challenge for this time of the year Ailsa. It’ll take me a long time to go through everyone’s entries. Here’s mine. http://ayearinmyshoes.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-theme-foliage/
Haha, awesome, great shot, Livvy 🙂 Yes, there have been tons of entries this week, it’s keeping me busy, that’s for sure!
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I love your tree full of birds, and also the palm fronds peeking over the wall! My pictures aren’t very autumnal, probably because we usually travel in the summer 😉 – but here they are: http://newpillowbook.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-themes-foliage/.
Fab shots, those Catacombs Gardens look amazing! 🙂
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I could go all year on this theme.
View a few at: http://crescentmoonstudio.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-theme-foliage-4/
Take care and keep in touch,
Paz
Lovely shot, Paz!
Good day Ailsa and everybody!!!
Love your challenge!!! It offered a good excuse to wander around….
Here my post!
Hope you like it!
Really lovely shots, ilargia64, I love how you’ve captured the light in these photos!
Thanks!
Hi there,
This is the first time I respond to the Travel Theme. Thanks for inviting me to participate.
Here is my entry http://zainabdullah.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-theme-foliage/
Welcome to the weekly travel themes, Zain, what fantastic shots, that tea plantation photo is really beautiful!
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A plethora of autumn color photos from Summit County, Colorado. Someday I’ll even take a good one!
Haha, John, you are too modest, lovely shots, and my favourite – of course – is the one of your faithful Westie. Too cute.
Here’s some amazing New Zealand foliage:
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I really like the name of your Blog? Where’s my backpack? And you obviously love to travel and take photographs… me too! Enjoy!
Nice to meet a kindred spirit! 🙂
Beautiful photos Ailsa! I especially love the birds and the entrance to the Moongate Gardens. Here is my first entry for this theme. http://wp.me/pT3BE-sh Thanks for visiting my blog and telling me about your theme!
Lovely photos, that second one is really beautiful, I love the light and texture in it. So glad you joined in this week’s travel theme! Hope to see you again!
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Love the theme, Ailsa!
Here is my entry: http://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/travel-theme-foliage/
Fab, Amy, that top one is stunning. I just love ivy-covered buildings, they’re so romantic!
Thanks for visiting and the invitation to participate in your challenge – have a look at foliage in my small corner (this week) of the world: http://acrossthebored.com/2012/10/01/travel-theme-foliage/
Yum, pears are delish! I love the gentle colours in this, and that delicate brown of the leaves in the background. Nice shot, so glad you joined in this week’s travel theme, hope to see you joining in again!
Hi Ailsa, thanks for sharing about the theme!! 🙂 I love seeing all the beautiful colours of seasons from people across the world. Here’s my little snapshot of local foliage in Sydney. http://becomingaussie.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage/
Oh how gorgeous, that delicate pink against the bright blue sky is wonderful! Thanks for joining in, hope to see you taking part again! 🙂
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An fantastic idea from you with this theme, I have some photos of them, here is mine http://campanulladellaanna.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage/ Thank you @Ailsa, have a nice day too
Beautiful, Della Anna, I particularly like the one along the river, the colours are lovely! xxx
What a popular theme this week, Ailsa! 🙂 Here’s my contribution:
I know, ad, it’s a theme everyone can get behind! Lovely photos, lemon trees always make me think of vacation. I just love how they smell! 🙂
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Here’s another contribution from me http://citylifepicture.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage-2-2/
Wonderful, Dianne, the spiky plant in the bottom right really sets off the scene beautifully!
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Thanks for the visit. Great photo`s.
Thanks Leo 🙂
Love this post 🙂 x
Thanks so much, Lady F 🙂
Love the pictures with the birds! 🙂 Here’s my take on this theme http://thehoppymommybunny.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage/ 🙂
Lovely series of shots, (and I love your blog name!) The Meiji Shrine is wonderful!
Always nice to see your selection Ailsa ! I went out on a foliage hunt but many of our trees at the moment are not at their most ‘leafpeeping’ best . I did get some shots of some horse chestnut leaves but then realised that actually they were a bit sad as altho colourful I think they are suffering from a moth/larvae blight 😦 which is rather a problem in some areas in UK – but they are hoping that our little blue tit’s feeding habits will help . Hope so.
I await next weeks theme 🙂
Oh dear, hope the trees beat the blight, poppytump, here’s hoping the blue tits work their magic 🙂
Love it, fellow fall foliage follower!
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I took this picture somewhere in Belgium… Autumn is slowly arriving here! http://ingriddendievel.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage/
Lovely, Ingrid. 🙂
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I love the composition of that first photo with the really cool archway. Here is my post for this week: http://rainbowbakery.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage/
You final image from Antigua, Guatemala strikes me the most. It’s the lovely tone of green that is mimicked in the man made structure and the leaves casting the shadow on it.
Heres my foliage http://farnorthlight.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/foliage-on-mt-index-washington-state/
Thanks for the heads up on this photo theme! Here’s my entry for “foliage”: http://brain.queenkv.org/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage/
Lovely, Kris, you can’t beat a good vineyard, they’re awfully romantic! 🙂
Here’s another offering – I had to restrict myself to foliage seen while traveling because I am a serious foliage lover! Foliage can be wet, dry, curly, tall, short, matted, and… http://bluebrightly.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/travel-theme-foliage/
These are wonderful, bluebrightly – the two of the houses are stunning and the foggy hemlocks look like they’re right out of a dream!
I’m travelling and providing a service at the same time – I’m house sitting in the Bay of Plenty New Zealand in a rural area. I look after a house and a standard poodle, Ebony. We go for walks twice daily in the avocado orchard next door. The shelter belts are being trimmed, beautiful foliage thuds to the ground, leaving a perfume of resin and a mess. The lean mean machine that does it has a 4-saw guillotine ……I’m a new blogger. Here’s my entry http://kinsahaysblog.com/2012/10/02/travel-theme-foliage/
Well welcome to the travel themes, kinsahays, lovely descriptive narrative in your post, I can almost smell the resin! xxx
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