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Winter is supposed to come after Fall, but the snow gods and my Japanese Maple didn’t get the memo this year. We normally only get a snow or two that sticks per winter. Usually that doesn’t happen until January or February at the earliest. Last week we received several inches of the white stuff. As soon as the snow finished falling, the maple decided it was time to drop all of its red and mostly orange leaves creating this scene, one we haven’t witnessed before.
After several days in a row of little or no sun last week, it was nice to look out the window one afternoon and see some blue sky breaking through some white, fluffy clouds. With the Japanese Maples still pretending it is fall and the pines remaining as green as ever, this presented the viewer with a cornucopia of color. There was even snow on the mountains to offset the colors with some whiteness.
There was no school today, not because it snowed but because the campus is closed this week for Thanksgiving. I went in anyway. Nobody was there. No footprints in the snow on a college campus is an unusual sight. So peaceful…
Today’s photo is from the same basic location (with camera pointed a bit more to the right today) as this prior picture. I was on the steps of Central Hall.
A rare glimpse of the sun yesterday allowed this photo. It may look like an HDR, but it is not. The light was just right, and our Japanese maple is just a few days away from giving up its leaves for the winter (which feels like it is already here).
Ten years ago we moved to Ashland from San Jose, California. Things haven’t changed much in Ashland during those ten years. When we got here in 2000, it was freezing, one of our Japanese Maples was in full fall splendor, and the other had lost all of its leaves. That’s the same condition as things today.
Today’s photo was taken a couple weeks ago. Going from the left, about 30% into the photo is Pilot Rock. About 75% into the photo from the left is Mt. Ashland.
Ashland Creek, which runs through Lithia Park, is nice in all seasons but fall has to be my favorite.
I was sitting in the grass in Lithia Park the other day, enjoying rather warm temperatures for November. Instead of pulling the camera up to see what I was taking a picture of, I just took it from the position of the leaves I was sitting in.
At the corner of Terrace Street and Ashland Loop Road I noticed some unusual, swirly clouds blending nicely with the curves in this person’s driveway. The fall foliage looked nice too but didn’t come out so much in this photo.
A closeup taken soon after yesterday’s photo… I didn’t realize squirrels ate maple leaves.
