Autumn Whispers
Oregon · USA
Like delicate splatters from an orange paintbrush, autumn leaves add a sprinkle of warm color to moss-covered boulders lining the serpentine shores of Oneonta Creek, here in high flood and stained brown with muddy silt from the fresh rains. One of the few downsides to living in this area, though, is the paucity of naturally occurring oranges and reds in the fall, as the bountiful leaves of the local maples and alders tend to yellow and tatter their way into autumnal senescence. Coming across these maples rooted at successive bends of the creek with their blazing orange leaves was something like providence.
