October 5, 2008

• Touch of Autumn

  

  Thursday of the week before last week, it was overcast and really cold.   I took a walk at lunch time and silently told myself, it began to feel autumn.  The large patch of land next to the river was full of wild flowers such as golden rods, wild purple and white daisies as small as the tip of a nail, and these clover flowers.  And I saw this butterfly.  I wanted to take a few more photos of the butterfly but it would not sit still.  If you see butterflies and bees around certain flowers you know they are fragrant.  

  

  Along my walk, the trees are still green but here and there, I spot a few leaves turned yellow such as this one.  I wonder what its name.  If you know, please tell me.

  

  In front of my company and along Broad Street, in front of YMCA I saw these pods.  They are very juicy when I broke the pods in half.  Just looking at the leaves they look like black locusts but I do not know for sure.

  

  Next to the building where they have large garage and where I was stopped for taking pictures by a garage attendant, golden rods sprouted through the cracks of concrete pavement.  On this branch there were at least five wasps buzzing around.  Theywere hidden in the clumps of flowers only one was seen. 

  

  Next to the walkway around the NJPAC, the trees started to turn color on the top.

  

  And the bush next to it had some berries.  I often wonder what is the name of this evergreen bush.

  

  Last week Thursday I went to my meeting.  As I came up the street from Journal Square I saw the tree top was under the partial sunlight so golden.  The leaves  look like tamarin leaves.  This kind of trees turn yellow before any other trees and just a big rain their leaves will fall like a yellow rain.

  

  Saturday I went grocery shopping.  Stopping by the nursery next to the farm market, see all fall colors in pumpkins, mums with various colors such as purple, yellow, white, copper, red, squash with many odd shapes, and hays, and scarecrows.  The one went with me was embarrased that i took pictures of mundane things she asked to sit in the carJ

  

  

  

  After grocery shopping, I took a walk on the street in fron of my house.  On top of an electrical column, a patch of ivy turned bright red as if it was ripened under the sun.  The sun just came out about half an hour I came home, but it was enjoyable to feel the warm and to see the color was ablazed.

  

  

  I turned into a gravel road just to visit the bamboo grove.  It was still lush green.

  

  A leaf prematurely fell.

  

  Ablazing oak leaves

   

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