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
Where's my backpack? 
very well thought out pics and themes….great work
Thanks CaptainPhil 🙂
Hey Ailsa, I am eagerly anticipating your new challenge, but the wait has given me an opportunity to catch up with one from two weeks ago, that I missed while on vacation in New Zealand. I got a bit carried away when I realised how many photographs I have taken of foliage from five different countries: Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Papua New Guinea and of course, from various locations around Australia. http://cinova.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/travel-theme-foliage/
Hey cinova, just in the nick of time – I just put up the new challenge. Love this post, glorious foliage from all over! Gosh you’ve seen a lot of the world! xxx
How cute – the birds in the tree! Thanks for visiting my blog.
Thanks for liking my Joshua Tree pic. I appreciate the support! Love your work. 🙂
Even in the Algarve those leaves were turning, oh so subtly, Ailsa. I’m home, cold and in denial now.
I have become a leaf-peeper in my hometown of Rochester, New York. Thanks for visiting me; I wanted to pay a return visit and am happy I did. My next post will include fall foliage, but I warn everyone ahead of time that I am an amateur photographer. My specialty is writing, or painting “word-pictures.”
Great photos!
Somebody made a comment saying “It’s so great, it doesn’t look real”. Reminds me of the one that said the flowers looked so great they must be plastic. The English language has 600,000 plus commonly spoken words… You would think that American English can’t be too far behind, in as much as it uses most of mother English’s vocabulary. Point being, that if one really looks at the beauty of your poetic photography, one can but help to see its real beauty. Chapeau for your unmistakable creative talent. The composition is magnificent! JJF
Thank you for visiting and ‘liking’ my photo blog ….. love your photos and what a great shot of the boidies in the branches …. Eileen
Thanks, Eileen, glad you liked the ‘boidies’!
I love good photography. Nice work.
Thanks so much for checking out my lifestyle blog Bmore Energy, https://bmoreenergy.wordpress.com. Your photos are beautiful! Here in the Northeast the autumn colors are so pretty. I just changed my header to a shot I took while in Saratoga Springs, NY–a panoramic view of multicolored tree tops.
Wonderful pictures!
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