It isn’t usual for me to take “Fall color” pictures. In fact, I can’t think of a time I did other than last year…and that didn’t really count because that was in my front yard.
This year, I felt compelled to try since I never really put forth any effort into capturing the beauty of the season. I drove out to the massive cemetery at Jefferson Barracks. This is the first time I’ve been to a cemetery since I went to Miles Mausoleum in Illinois.
Without further ado, here are a handful of the images I made today:
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh
For what it’s worth, I don’t normally do the dutch angle thing (the slanted image in the photo above) but I kind of liked the way this one turned out.
***Please forgive the somewhat heavy JPEG compression. I only realized that I had my compression settings improperly set after I uploaded them all and I don’t feel like going back through them all again.***
When did they all come down? The leaves that is.
It seems like it was just yesterday when the grass was green. That is probably because many of the leaves started falling yesterday (or at least not too long ago). When I woke up this morning and stepped outside, I noticed that this car got bombarded with leaves overnight.
Ok. So it wasn’t completely “bombarded” but it did stand out more than any other car on the block. Red leaves on a black car. It made the mistake of parking under the tree in my front yard.
The crazy weather is confusing the plants. First we had temperatures below freezing that triggered the leaves to fall. Then it warms back up and the green fights back. I think the leaves are blocking the sunlight and killing the grass.
Oh well. I love all the color. It is a photographers dream!I can’t really complain about the 60 degree weather.
It’s that time of the year again. The leaves are changing. The pumpkins are…pumpking. And the corn is doing whatever it does.
In Sikeston, MO at Beggs Family Farm, they have what may be the best corn maze ever. Every year, they change the path in their maze. Their maze is nothing short of an artistic corn creation. This year, the maze was designed to look like a Ford Model T with the Ford logo. Previous years designs include a dinosaur, Alcatraz and an American Flag.
As you enter the maze, you descend down a stairwell into the corny abyss.
After a miraculous finish in 40 minutes, we headed over to the corn air canon located right next to the maze.
Unfortunately, none of us were successful hitting the target. At least we all looked good trying.
Many of the areas were fenced in with roped flags. Sometimes they seemed slightly too high to hop over and slightly too low to duck under. Chris took a running start and made a flying leap over the fence.
Of course there are other interesting things going on at Beggs farm. Pig races. Weird spinning rooms that cause severe nausea and an immediate disorientation. I took pictures of those too. They will go up when I get a chance.
Tomorrow (actually it is later today at this point), we are going to Lambert’s Cafe, home of the throwed rolls. That will be an exciting gourging of food. We are all looking forward to it!