Assorted Fall Photos (publ. 2024-08-28)

These photos are from the last three days. All taken with my Nikon AW130.

On Monday and Tuesday, I took walks along the Tanana river and shot a few photos of spotted yellow and red leaves, as well as some dark-red leaves.

leaves spotted red and yellow (thumbnail)

leaves spotted red and yellow

red leaves (thumbnail)

red leaves

red willow leaves (thumbnail)

red willow leaves

red willow leaves (thumbnail)

red willow leaves

Along the bank of the river, I saw these interesting little leaves that come in bunches of three:

small triple-leaves (thumbnail)

small triple-leaves

Here are some more photos of the foilage and river:

fall foilage (thumbnail)

fall foilage

sunny Tanana (thumbnail)

sunny Tanana

In a last minute decision on Monday, I decided to walk another 100 feet down the path, instead of turning back. I'm glad I did, since I found these washed up trees along the bank:

washed up tree (thumbnail)

washed up tree

tree root sticking up (thumbnail)

tree root sticking up

Most interesting was these beautiful patterns on the tree roots:

tree root wood patterns (thumbnail)

tree root wood patterns

Here are some more photos from that:

washed up tree base (thumbnail)

washed up tree base

washed up tree base (bottom) (thumbnail)

washed up tree base (bottom)

washed up tree trunk (thumbnail)

washed up tree trunk

wood with ant tunnels (thumbnail)

wood with ant tunnels

wood with knot (thumbnail)

wood with knot

This morning I went sunrise hunting. The clouds to the east proved to be too thick to view the sunrise. However, I got this nice photo of these clouds, in the twilight:

twilight clouds (thumbnail)

twilight clouds

Something more exciting: when I left the apartment this morning, I was able to see stars, for the first time since spring! The skies were cloudy, but through one patch I was able to see Cassopia. Through another patch I was able to see the moon, next to Mars and Jupiter.

I took my binoculars out for a few minutes, laid down on the ground, and enjoyed looking over Cassiopia for a few minutes. This was fun, though I'm always a little nervous that I'm going to freak out my apartment neighbors, if they happen to leave, or come home, at 4am and find me laying on the ground out in the dark.

Last, but not least, I'm continuing to monitor the new fiddleheads on my Western Fern:

fiddleheads (thumbnail)

fiddleheads

fiddlehead (two days later) (thumbnail)

fiddlehead (two days later)

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