Let It Fall!

What a relief that the flower season's almost over. Honest.

You macro pix meshuganas make the world so blissfully bite-sized and so breathtakingly unreal! While the truth -- for this gardener -- is the bigger, messier picture. Which is one of the reasons I can't get enough of the kaleidoscopic chaos that is foliage in the fall.

For my money -- and the stuff does cost -- there's nothing black mondo grass can't do. This week it's drowning in killer crape myrtle foliage; a few months from now it'll be setting off brilliant little species tulips if the squirrels and the beagle don't get them first.

photo credit: Ketzel Levine, NPR

 

Kudos to TP Flickr Pixer Christine4nier who grabbed this conversation between a red maple and a birch before they took the plunge into history near Woodstock, VT.

photo credit:Christine4nier

 

So how 'bout grabbing your cameras and sharing your perspective as this most melancholy of times take its leaves? Delight us with autumnal light, colorful landscapes, fiery and fallen moments in your garden. Best pix gets posted on the NPR homepage billboard (hint: take horizontals).

And if this is your first visit to Talking Plants, it's easy to join our jolly band of photographers (244 members and going strong!). We all belong to the no strings attached Talking Plants Flickr Pix photo swap, All Comers Welcome and Here's How, where you're likely to run into folks much like yourself with a strong sense of wonder (and might I add, gratitude) for all Man has yet to plunder.

2:09 PM ET | 10-17-2007 | permalink