This past Tuesday, we got hit with an unexpected (at least, I didn’t hear anything about it) Nor’easter. After a handful of power flickers & cable outages, we quickly realized the intense rain storm was a bit out of the ordinary. We were very lucky that even though the one of the biggest power outages in the state is not all that far from where we are, we didn’t lose power for long and there’s no major damage in our immediate area, other than tons of small downed branches and lots and lots of leaves. So since for the last Thursday Tree Love I took some shots of the fall foliage around our yard, I thought that for today’s TTL, I thought I’d take some shots of the fall foliage after the storm.
But before I get started, a quick shout out to my WordPress blogging friend Parul to say thank you for hosting this awesome blog hop every couple of weeks. If you want to join in the Tree love blog hop fun, it’s wicked easy – here’s the description from her latest post today, called #ThursdayTreeLove – 117:
Thursday Tree love is a photo feature hosted on this blog on every 2nd and 4th Thursday of a month. The next edition will go live on November 11, 2021. If you would like to play along, post a picture of a tree on your blog, tell me where did you spot the tree and link it back to this post.
If you don’t see the pingback, please leave a link to your post in my comments section. Please make sure that your post’s link is showing up on this latest edition. I will link your posts on my blog in the next edition and spread some love. Let’s come together to appreciate the beautiful nature around us.
As for these photos, as per my usual FYI – these were taken in the yard of my Durham, NH home with my Nikon, attached to my tripod. All were resized, then cleaned up a bit with PicMonkey – mostly the exposure and sharpness, but with a few other tweaks like vignette filters for the corners here and there.
Now on with the photos…
Fall foliage after the storm
1. Two weeks ago for my last Thursday Tree Love, I bemoaned the fact that I didn’t think to get a shot of this spot when everything was still green. I have that shot coming up next, but this is how bare the trees are now, after the wicked winds were through with them.
1a. Here’s that same spot back on October 14th, 2021. Definitely more leaves on the trees then, and more leaves on the ground now.
2. Back to today – I’m actually surprised we still have any amount of leaves on the trees – I totally expected most of the foliage to be gone.
3. And while I was bummed that the skies were still grey and gloomy when I went out this morning, it did provide a nice backdrop to make the remaining color pop.
4. While there’s always a carpet of leaves on the ground in the woods, there’s now a goodly amount on the yard too, as you can see in the bottom right corner.
5. Did I mention the gloomy skies?
6. I just figure Mother Nature is putting on her Halloween best a bit early. I mean, doesn’t this look like a spider web tree?
7. Almost bare branches against the gloomy grey.
8. Still some leaves stubbornly hanging on.
9. At first, I was worried I’d messed up the exposure for this shot, since it seemed a bit washed when looking at it on my camera. But I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it on my computer, since the lighting made the leaves so bright even with the lack of sun.
10. And shows there’s still some green that hasn’t changed yet.
11. Looking past the shagbark tree into the woods.
12. Two weeks ago I was bummed I didn’t think my camera did justice to the foliage color. Now I’m happy that my shots actually seem a bit more colorful than they did in person, most likely because of the aforementioned gloom. Wait, did I mention the skies were cloudy? LOL!
13. I’m happy to say that as I took my last few shots before heading back into the house, I noticed a bit of blue peeking out from behind the clouds.
14. And maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s because one of our cats was watching me from the kitchen window, but those two spots of blue remind me of kitty paw prints.
14a. I wasn’t going to include this since Freddie isn’t very tree like (plus the window is wicked dirty), but I figured since I mentioned the cat paws, it was a good excuse to share.
15. Since the sun was being shy, I didn’t try holding up some leaves in front of my camera for any backlit macros. Instead I took a handful of some of the leaves near our porch.
16. It proved to be a bit challenging, not only because the storm kicked up my tremor a bit, but also because it was still fairly breezy out.
17. Hard to get a clear shot of a moving target, but I managed to snag these shots.
18. And after this shot, I decided to “leaf” the yard and head back inside.
Hope you enjoyed my photos of the fall foliage after the storm. Happy Thursday Tree Love everyone!
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Such beautiful colours. The leaves are turning and falling here. I had the good fortune to be the passenger for an hour’s drive through the countryside on Wednesday and I could enjoy the autumn colours to my heart’s content.
I love your shots and this fall foliage is gorgeous, even after the storm. Thankful that the storm passed. Thank you for joining, Traci and always a pleasure to have you around. See you tomorrow.
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Such beautiful colours. The leaves are turning and falling here. I had the good fortune to be the passenger for an hour’s drive through the countryside on Wednesday and I could enjoy the autumn colours to my heart’s content.
Beautiful photos. Love that Freddie.
Aaaamazing!!! Loved this colour show!!
I love your shots and this fall foliage is gorgeous, even after the storm. Thankful that the storm passed. Thank you for joining, Traci and always a pleasure to have you around. See you tomorrow.
Such gorgeous colour!
Interesting perspectives! Some of those leaves are amazing at how well they hold on until the time is right to let go.