Autumn is coming!
Apples, pumpkins, falling leaves…
It will soon be here!
– Jeanne Hoadley
Periodically, in order to stretch myself as a photographer, I assign myself a 100 days project. It occurred to me sometime last June that it would be fun to do 100 days of Autumn. Unfortunately, after doing the math, I discovered that there are only 91 days from the Autumnal Equinox until the Winter Solstice. I thought of dividing the extra nine days between September and December but somehow September seems more autumnal than December and the lead up to Autumn much more interesting to photograph. So, I decided to just start the project nine days before the Equinox.
This is my fourth 100 days project. I started with the first 100 days of retirement, next was my first 100 days back in Oregon and most recently I did 100 days of winter from December 2015 into March of 2016. The rules of the game are that I have to try very hard to get out and photograph something every day and post it to my blog. If for some reason I cannot get out to photograph, I have to create a digital art piece from something I photographed within the 100 day period. Since I’ve front loaded the project with a trip to New England I am not too worried about running out of material. But just so I don’t get too lazy, and so that I can really live into the fullness of autumn, I will also try to include a poem, a quote or a Haiku with each day’s photograph.
For my first day, today, I chose to visit one of my favorite places to photograph in Ashland; North Mountain Park. I ended up with over 100 images so the hard part was deciding what to post: the milkweed seeds, the fading coneflowers, the sunflowers, the leaves turning on the Oregon Grapes… I opted for a Morning Glory because these lovely flowers speak to me of September and the transition from summer to autumn.
