COLOR PROGRESSES

 While the vistas and hills have yet to reach their peak, lots of individual trees are brilliant in fall color.  The coming weekend, forecast to be sunny, should bring peak colors.

 

 

ANOTHER SEASONAL SIGN

 

 

TO LEAF PEEPERS

 While peak is likely a week or more away, color season is underway.  Even the white pines, with their seasonal needle drop, are brightening the landscape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DANCING CRANES

 I hadn’t seen my crane family with its two juveniles since early July.  I’ve wondered where they went and whether they were okay.  On my way home from a recent photoshoot near sunset, I saw them emerge from a wheat field.  They’d been in the area all along, but hidden in the tall grasses.  The juveniles had matured to the size of their parents, except for their red forehead patch, which was just beginning to show.  To my delight, one parent began to dance while the other bugled loudly.  Soon, they all began jumping around with their beautiful dance moves.  What a joy-filled scene!

 

 

GLEN HAVEN SUNRISE

On Monday, I posted pictures of the waves on the west-facing beach at Empire and the contrasting calm water at Glen Haven, a northerly spot just ten minutes away. It got me thinking about whether I could see a sunrise there over the landmass leading to Pyramid Point. So early Saturday morning, my friend Don Burton and I left for Glen Haven to find out.  It was still dark, but a full moon guided us the whole time.  We met fog along the way and weren’t sure what we’d find at the Lakeshore.  But salmon-pink, clear skies greeted us as we arrived, with Pyramid Point to our right and both Manitous on the left.  And my hunches were correct; we got a beautiful sunrise from the beach.  After we left for home, we quickly ran into fog.  We stopped for pictures at the D.H. Day farm.  The longer we sat, the more the fog enshrouded the three barns.  It was a morning with two kinds of beauty.