End of Season

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Flowers • Tagged asters, dried, fall, field, photography, Queen Anne's Lace • 8 Comments

A single Queen Anne’s Lace flower, now dried up, stands among the purple fall asters.

Abstract Shore

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Abstract • Tagged angles, Lake Erie, Ontario, pattern, photography, shore, waves • 12 Comments

This is a view of the Lake Erie shoreline just east of Port Stanley.

Buckeye

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged Aster, Buckeye, butterfly, photography, purple, wild flowers • 12 Comments

A Common Buckeye enjoys the nectar of the pretty purple asters which are in bloom now, most everywhere in Ontario.

Starting to Change

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged color, fall color, green, leaves, orange, photography • 2 Comments

Many leaves along the path are still green but some are showing their colours. The change will happen fast now that I see frost on the neighbors roof!

Love Nature

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Trees • Tagged contre-jour, green, heart shaped, leaf, leaves, love, Nature, photography, tree, veins • 4 Comments

The heart shaped leaves of what I’m pretty sure is a young Catalpa tree are back lit by the late afternoon light.

Colour Grid

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Abstract • Tagged Coldstream, color, colour, fall, fall color, grid, leaves, net, photography, squares, trees • 12 Comments

A volleyball net provides an abstract way of viewing fall colours.

Four Leaf Stems

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Trees • Tagged backlit, contre-jour, fall color, leaf, maple, orange, photography, red, stems, veins, yellow • 6 Comments

Fall colour in happening fast now that the nights are getting cold. Yellow maple leaves glow in the sun while red and orange maple leaves provide a colourful background.