Dreary November – The Changing Seasons

November started off with enough colour:

Japanese maple tree
Gorgeous Japanese maple, captured on November 3

But the wind and rain soon stripped the trees and I struggled to find whatever colour was left:

berries on the trail
Berries in the gloom

And then it wasn’t long before this happened:

snowy trees
Winter wonderland drive to work, November 13

And I did manage to capture one spectacular sunset:

November sunset
November 14 Red and Navy sunset

But the snow didn’t last, and we were back to dull skies, clouds and rain and a dearth of colour:

Riverside trail
Mill Run Trail, November 25

Clearly I wasn’t the only one that felt November needed some brightening up:

bright poppy against dull branches
Well, this is one use for a poppy after Remembrance Day I suppose…

I noticed many things on the trail that I just walk on by, when the foliage is rich and lush:

stumps
I walk by this all the time, but this time I really noticed this stump and the stump behind it.
leaf shapes
The shapes of these oak leaves caught my eye as well.
The beauty of a feathery pampas grass head…
This scene, although kind of desolate, speaks to me.
I don’t know what these are, but I do like the look of them…also that they provide some welcome colour!

And while I was noticing all these beautiful and delightful things, I felt like something was noticing me as well:

watchful tree
Eeeek! The trees have eyes!

I went to the Orthodontist’s office on November 26. Soon I won’t need to visit them anymore as I am almost at the end of my Invisalign treatment (yay!). This time, it was full-on Christmas decor:

Maple Leaf tree
A tree dedicated to the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, of course! (For the hockey-mad clientele.)
A corner dedicated to the Nutcracker Ballet, with Nutcracker and Mouse King (For the rest of us?).
A view of the main treatment area.

These were some of my impressions of this overall mostly dreary November.

Hope yours was more colourful!

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Rock on,

The WB

27 thoughts on “Dreary November – The Changing Seasons

  1. Thankfully, we can rely on Christmas decorations and lights to come out at this time of year to help us ‘adjust’ to the endless gray. I’d be just as happy to not see any white stuff for a very long time!!

    I love that tree knot. Definitely creepy!

  2. Beautiful photos. I think the orange berries might be called bittersweet. If I’d taken photos down here in Ohio they would have been just as dreary.I wasn’t quite ready for that this year. Or maybe it’s fitting after all.

      1. I can understand the desire for a “real” camera; but camera phones have the major advantage of portability, and as someone famous said, the best shot is the one you took.
        You have a good eye, and whatever camera you use, I’m sure you will capture great photos. I read this recently, and really like it …

        “When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”
        — Anonymous

          1. 🙂 I’ve been thinking about this a lot (especially since I had to sit through a “show” of photos by someone who owns some ridiculously expensive kit and still manages to take the most boring images I’ve ever seen).

  3. This is a wonderful visual reminder of how quickly color can disappear from your world. I like the hockey tree theme, not because I’m a huge fan, but because I like those colors.

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