These were both taken recently… the above is one of those trees that holds onto their leaves until spring. Just to make sure that there is raking year round, I guess.
Branches and Sky
More Autumn Colors
I have visited the Dosewallips River Trail for the last few years during autumn for the colors of the maples (both Big Leaf Maples and Vine Maples). Prior to moving to Port Townsend, I would hike up the North Fork Skokomish valley (in Olympic National Park) … it being my favorite valley and closest to Olympia, where I lived at the time. The Dosewallips valley is offers some differences compared to the North Fork Skok … the Dose is in the National Forest (not the National Park) and there are many more big leaf maples along the Dose, whereas the Skok has more vine maples. The North Fork Skokomish is a lot further away from Port Townsend and has just burned this year and is still closed to entry.
Autumn Leaves
We took advantage of a pleasant, sunny day in mid-October to go for a hike to see some autumn colors along the Dosewallips River Trail. See detail above and a shot by Wendy Rose below of me taking this shot.
Maple Leaves
I liked the way the sun was backlighting the leaves and making the green really “pop”.
Leaf and Blacktop
This image was hard for me to get used to. It was shot with a film camera (a Nikon S3 rangefinder) and I had mistakenly loaded a roll of black and white film when I had intended to load color. Imagine my surprise when it came back from the lab. I don’t know for sure if I would have liked it better in color, but it certainly isn’t the way I visualized it.