Walking Around Greebelt Lake and a Birthday . . .

[lavendertook]

A very happy birthday to the lovely lovethosehobbit! Come on for a walk around Greenbelt Lake . . .



This is how it looked a month ago when the trees were just beginning to put on their autumn finery. We had a brief autumn this year, cut short by the drought that browned out most leaves early, and ended abruptly by Hurricane Sandy and its tryst with the cold front that plunged us into an early winter. Normally, the leaves would be past peak right now, but there would still be many trees doing their own dances of bright color to prolong the loveliness past mid November, but the trees are uncharacteristically mostly bare now. Still, we had a lot of sunshine in October that made the few trees doing their dances of color shine with a subtler beauty, especially in the late afternoon light. So we'll continue around part of the lake below.

















































I hope you enjoyed the walk!

More pics of October walks around the lake will follow in future posts, especially for ladysnaps, who requested autumn pics.

Comments

[wordweaverlynn]

It looks like Fairyland.

[spiralsheep]

\o/

[praeriedikter]

These are beautiful photos! At least I'm assuming they're photos but the top one looks like a painting. Such a pretty!!

I never heard that about sunlight touching tree trunks during the last hour of daylight means the door between the worlds is open. Is that an old wives tale or something? Very evocative!

[romeny.livejournal.com]

Is that one of the spots we walked that yr? Simply gorgeous.

[addie71.livejournal.com]

Your pictures are beautiful.

[shirebound]

Oh, how beautiful. I love your lake.

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

so very beautiful!!! Are you anticipating snow shortly, or are you still in the midst of Autumn?

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Sandy ripped most of the leaves off the trees when she came through. The pictures are lovely, though.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

So beautiful. Autumn colors are my favorite!

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Oh honey, what a lovely scenery. :)

[lovethosehobbit.livejournal.com]

Oh it's gorgeous! Thank you so much. I might even borrow a couple for possible paintings....so lovely.