I leaf peep whenever I can in these final days of October. One good gusty rain storm is going to send the last of the tawny gold and orange leaves flying through the air and across the roads, bunching them up in awkward corners and gutters, tangling them throughout the blackening garden. We'll be down to the bare bones then — the shapes of trunks and branches. We'll suddenly notice the evergreens again, grateful for green needles and dangling cones.Can anyone identify the plant/grass in the bottom photo? It's planted en masse outside a nearby market, along with other taller and more showy grasses, and I love both the graceful arch of the seed heads and it's golden brown autumn hue. Funny, I don't recall what it looked like in summer...
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The leaf peeping is what makes living in the northeast magical. pretty, pretty!
Pretty fall color, just looks like wheat to me.
Best wishes finding out what your pretty 'grass' is...it took me more than a couple years to figure out the 'horse chestnuts' here in the fall ARE the abundantly blooming white flowered bush of Spring. Funny the things we don't notice that are there all along, huh?
I'm trying to enjoy the last few weeks of leaves on trees. I'm not ready for cold weather yet! But then I'm never really ready for it.
Not sure about that grass.
Wonderful fall colors.. The leaves are just turning here in the south.
I think that the grass looks like a sort of wheat too but, who knows. I am sitting here at my computer, looking out at the window and there are so many oak trees that have not even turned yet! We are expecting lots of wind today but sadly, it will not be blowing many leaves around. That is the fun thing: looking at those leaves coming down as if they are rain. We have a long way to go I'm afraid. I don't even think that we have had a frost yet!! This, I am reminded by my husband, is why we live here and not on the east coast. (Secretly, I want to live on the east coast).
Oh, your photos are fantastic! Fall is such a beautiful time of the year to photograph.
Sea Oats!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_oats
I was leafing through Better Homes and Gardens with my mom yesterday and there they were, in a floral arrangement. Apparently t is unlawful to pick wild sea oats (even the seeds), but you can buy the plants or the seeds from native plant nurseries who have permits to propagate protected species.
There's a native plant nursery about 40 minutes away, so I'll have to look there next spring.
hee hee, i was going to say "it looks like wild oats that someone sowed" *g*
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