YES Nap!

gorgeous!

Loverly. Save me those leaves, please.

Nancy they have a pinkish hue to them! I love them!

Thanks, everyone. They were lovely. And I think the pinkish cast was probably due to the weather. It was raining lightly, and I don't like to shoot on "automatic," so maybe it was set for sun when it should have been set for clouds. Maybe. I don't know.

I took a short trip to the mountains, about 300 miles east of me.
Whoohoooooo....lots of color there.
So beautiful.

Wow ... I'm loving the autumn colors!

Sharon, I bet your mountains are beautiful! So, you consider 3 hours a "short" trip? LOL, 15 minutes is a short trip to me ... 3 hours and I'd have to stay awhile. But, when I visit the mountains I never want to leave!

We don't get to see a lot in the way of colorful autumn leaves down here but we do sometimes get a little color. These are some pic's I took yesterday.

Koelreuteria elegans (Chinese Rain Tree) has pretty yellow flowers and rose colored seed pods:


Tibouchina urvilleana (Princess Flower) a few leaves turning pretty colors and the pretty purple blooms:

How pretty, Lin!!

It was a long trip, but a short stay.
I'll do it again soon, but maybe longer next time.

Beautiful images everyone.

Oooh, I was out in the backyard taking pictures of birds at a feeder before it started getting dark and all of a sudden the Jays began raising a ruckus so I figured there was a hawk around. Anyway ... I began looking around to see if I could see a hawk and look at the beautiful trees I spotted in a neighbors yard one street over! I don't know what kind of trees they are, I tried zooming in and cropping a picture but I can't make out the leaf shape. I will have to ask her which trees she has on that side of her house. My first thought were Maple and Hickory but my Maple and Hickory's are still totally green. Usually our deciduous trees go from "with leaves" to "bare" and sometimes they will turn yellow before falling but once every ten or fifteen years we might get some nice color like this:

This is Charley's Autumn color....

Charleen: That is Beautiful!!

Oh, I just love all these photos.

Glad you're home safe Sharon - that was a QUICK trip.

Thanks Vic.
Yep, it was quick. Pretty, though.

Welcome home Sharon. You don't realize that Ruby does indeed have her own cell phone though.

Not only that, I received an advertisement -no joke- to see the Rockettes and it showed a photo of them. Didn't see Ruby though - maybe she's still practicing those high kicks

One of these, maybe?

I'd fall on my rump if I tried that!!!!

It's the high kicks that are the problem. She's on that skateboard, you know, and everytime she starts a kick, the board rolls away.

It's a dilemma.

That is a problem, for sure..