AUTUMN AT TAHOMA CEMETERY
Linda and I took a walk yesterday at the nearby Tahoma Cemetery. I decided that I wanted to walk somewhere there were big trees. One big difference between Eastern Washington and North Carolina is the fact that there are far fewer trees here. There are places in Yakima where you can go and see a view that has no trees whatsoever. You would be hard-pressed to do that in North Carolina, there are trees everywhere there. Out in the desert proper they are nonexistent. So we are glad that we have a place close by that has huge trees.
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| A gorgeous sight |
By now the trees are starting to lose their leaves, but they still look beautiful dressed out in their fall colors. Although the temperature the night before took a nose-dive well below freezing (27 degrees), yesterday was a nice sunny day with the high in the mid-60's.
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| Sun's out! |
I have tended to be a couch potato the last couple of weeks. The weather has been getting slowly colder, and so my activity level usually drops when that happens. There is nothing out in the garden to go check on, so I've been busy dehydrating and making various pepper relishes and pickles. But that didn't occupy much of my time, so I've been kind of lazy. After several days of not doing much, I felt the need to get out in nature and look at the fall colors, because soon the predominate color around here will be brown...and white.
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| Fall shades of brown |
There were a few other interesting things on our walk besides the trees. We came upon a rose bush that was almost bloomed out. There was one lavender rose left on it, a silent testament to the resiliency of rose bushes here. They seem to thrive in this hot, dry climate, as long as you give them enough water to survive.
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| One perfect bud |
It's always a good thing to have more than one set of eyes when looking for photo opportunities. Linda is good at spotting a nice scene or still life that is just begging to be photographed. She is much more in tune with her surroundings than I am, so she often points out something that turns out making a great photograph. Here are a couple of examples below of things she pointed out to me.
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| Beautiful rose hips |
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| The evergreens are loaded with cones |
Some of my favorite trees that we see all around Yakima are these weeping trees with white bark that I have been told are Paper Birch trees. I think these are so beautiful.
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| Some kind of Birch tree |
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| Close-up of the Birch tree bark |
Everything is not golden at the cemetery. There are several trees there that turn a different color before they drop their leaves. Soon they will all be bare and the beautiful colors will just be a memory.
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| A study in red |
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| Red and green on one tree |
The trees are so beautiful from afar, but if you move in closer you can see the individual leaves and the intricate detail of their veins.
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| Getting ready to let go |
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| Sunlight through the leaves |
Towards the end of our walk Linda spotted another good photo op. There was a large evergreen tree right beside the paved road that was just oozing sap. Although it made for a beautiful photograph, it isn't a healthy thing for a tree to be doing.
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| Sparkling diamonds on a tree |
Not only does Linda spot a good shot every now and then, she also takes them with her iPad. Here is a photograph she took that same morning, evidence of the cold temperatures the night before. The birdies had to wait for it to warm up to get their morning drink!
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| Ice in the bird bath |
A MOVIE RECOMMENDATION
We don't often go to the movies, usually about once or twice a year. This year, however, seems to be a good year for movies because there are several coming out that we want to see. So this past week we decided to go see the new version of
A Star Is Born, featuring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. We both adore Lady Gaga, so it was definitely a given to go see her. But Bradley Cooper, who we remembered from his days on the TV show
Alias, was an unexpected delight. Who knew he could sing so well? In my personal opinion, he held his own with Lady Gaga (
although just barely). Linda and I both gave this movie a "thumbs up." But having said all that, the definitive version of this movie, for me, will always be the one with Barbra Streisand. She is most definitely in a league by herself.
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| Go see it |
PUZZLE OF THE MOMENT
We've done a few puzzles lately that I haven't posted, mainly because they were repeats of ones we had already done. We stopped by our local senior center,
The Harmon Senior Center, a few weeks ago and picked up a couple. One of them was unopened, so we were stoked as this one would most likely not have any missing pieces. We've been working on this one for the past couple of weeks, and we are all done with it except for the black area. This is going to be hard, which is why we saved it for last. But when we get done, I think it is going to be one of my favorite puzzles, for obvious reasons.
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| Drinkiepoo time! |
PARTING SHOT
When we got back from our walk at the cemetery, there was one absolutely beautiful photo opportunity in our own front yard. I couldn't pass it up.
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| Behaving herself for a change |
That's all for this week, folks. Please join me again next week, when it is bound to be even colder! LOL
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