
My Yesterday in Pictures Format
Iāve simply built my daily walking & painting up to the point where I need the time for these two vital parts of keeping me healthy and/or sane, lol!
Plus, instead of having to work images into the My Day Ahead series posts, this new series will enable me to keep those as pure text, and supplement with images from a variety of possibilities here. Itās an experiment of course, so weāll see š
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Austin Morning Autumn Light

Day began bright & very cool but jumped out to catch the full morning light on the same area Iād caught under muted greys the day before. It was obvious the colors werenāt as bright or full as under the cloudy sky day before. Iād assumed either the short autumn season was already turning, or the colors were being bleached out by the intensity of the sun vs against the palette-like grey before. I was mostly wrong on both counts, lol, but didnāt know that for sure til evening (see last pic this post š ) Max, our 6 year old grandson had spent the night and eager to go with me for this and each new shoot except evening when he was back home ā¤ļø

Once Max and I were out on the along the main road with itās relative abundance of sporadic trees in fall bloom, I could see that, in places, the colors were as rich as the day before, though more sparkly, vs richly sedate like a lovingly hand woven ancient carpet under the previous dayās thick grey cover. Some canopies were soaked in reds, maroons, and hot orange. While others ā

Others were baked in glossy ambers and rustic browns like delicious breads crisped to gold and copper, the nuances between the tones, it seemed to me, less stark, yet deeper in texture. Nearly like luscious fur vs luxurious leather. Thankfully nature didnāt ask me to choose, they were both there, near each other, easy walking for the two of us. The abundance of colors seem to especially please the six year old ā¤ļø
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Walking With Max š

Max and I continued on down to the entrance to a small park with benches, the trail leading eventually to Slaughter Creekās northern bank where trails meandered east and west. Iād already walked both directions on the few days summerād sputtered and I could walk without being bitten by seemingly invisible bugs, or melted down into a puddle for the dry dust on the paths. This time, the weather was perfect, Max had on his new outfit from Grandma, and, I told him later, he looked like a young super hero in training costume. I think the only thing he didnāt like was being considered āin trainingā lol š

Further down the trail, on a small incline, I asked if heād run back and forth and jump when he wanted so I could catch him mid-air again. This one, with the light speckled on him, both feet off the ground, was one of his favās. Canāt disagree ā¤ļø And I didnāt even notice my partial shadow-selfie in camera-shooting mode in the bottom right til I posted this!

Then a shadow selfie of the two of us appeared I couldnāt resist pausing to capture. Itās one of the few all three, he, myself, and grandma, all agreed – this was a keeper āŗļø I especially like not only the silhouettes, not only the contrasts of light and dark, but also the deep textured colors of the rocks and fall leaves with our shadows. One of my favās š

Getting late in the morning and still wanting to go the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center before taking Max home, we took a short break along these light speckled boulders and wall, autumn colors of pale rust, rich orange, and ripe yellow golds accenting the literally deep blue sky!
Austin Evening Autumn Light
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In the early evening, when it already seemed much too quiet, early morningās scene again, the colors rich again, as the evening before when it was so intensely grey and cloudy, and the colors were once again, vs under todayās intense morning light, vibrant and glowing. My only guess why the sunny morningās colors seemed so much less than the previous cloudy eveningās look is, since on both the sunny and the cloud evening the colors were so nice, it was the slant of light that time of day, regardless of its cloudy or sunny intensity, that gave the trees so much beauty. And if thatās not it, it doesnāt matter right now. Only the marvel of catching such brilliant changes so unexpectedly here in dear old Austin, many with the youngest grandchild š āŗļø
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I hope to have a stand alone post of my pictures at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center soon, after I return there for further exploration Sunday morning, before the colors drop, and the grounds absorb their nutrients for all the plants. Thereās no sweeping, gathering, or leaf blowing away of natureās bounty of food for the trees and other plants for winter there ā¤ļø
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My Day Ahead series posts elaborate on both my day ahead & the day past, my yesterday.
My Day Ahead for Sunday, Nov 24th, posts well after this post, and may carry a bit more commentary about the images above. Itāll also automatically show up via the link above when posted ā thanks everyone!
Adan
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