Home Color

Postcards from the home front:

Sometimes there’s a lot to say. Sometimes there’s just a lot to show:

Autumn is so family for me, perhaps because winter is coming on, and you want to bundle up in your safest, warmest things –

You’ll laugh. When the yard has really gone yellow like this, all the aspen and the box elder, a wind will come up and suddenly the air is a flurry of golden snow. I always try to catch the feeling of it—that fall of scudding yellow, but it hardly ever works out. This time, I stood in this place and took over forty shots, hoping one would capture that marvelous visual cacophony. But alas, the wind and the shutter never lined up.

So I took all of the shots, stole the leaves out of them and plastered them all on this one frame. This still isn’t like seeing lines of driven leaves—just like lines of wind driven snow. But you get more of a feel for it. Thirty nine layers here. It was SOOOO fun to do and took me hours. Each leaf is in exactly the place I’d caught it in the other frame. Even background lines are all lined up and hues matched. All except for one leaf – a cheat – which I cut from the tree it still clung to and stuck in a place that needed more movement.

Glee!!! I love doing this!!

There are so many things I’ve wanted to write about, so many thoughts, so many things happening. But Autumn trumps them all today. Autumn and the really bad cold everybody in this house has managed to catch. They should spend more time outside with horses, is all I have to say.