It's Fall!!

Alison and I were able to go leaf hunting today. For those of you not in New England, I am sorry. This has been a particularly beautiful season. This first picture is taken from my porch of the cemetary across the street.
Of course, Alison had to dress up to go leaf hunting. I mean, you can't be 4 and go leaf hunting in what you wore to school!
I think I took about a million pictures of this tree. The light was hitting it just right and the color was just amazing. I wish I had brough my *gasp* film camera with the telephoto lens, I could have gotten better shots. Maybe later in the week.

And just one more picture. My favorite color leaves. When I saw this I kept thinking Robert Frost's Poem "Nothing Gold can Stay." Although he is talking about spring, I think it also applies to the leaves. Gold is the hue least seen, and it is gone to orange and red so quickly.

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

- Robert Frost