How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. ~John Burroughs
We had a glorious autumn this year. Each day, the colors shifted from green to gold to russet and burgundy, slow steps into the final leaf fall.
The hillside remained handsome for longer than expected 
while the leaves in the woods began their slow shift into the colors of fire. 
Pixie loves the smells of autumn and the fun of running through crisp leaves.
The rosy pink blossoms of Hydrangea ‘Limelight’ glowed beneath the gold of the bitternut hickory leaves, a column of unexpected colors.
The trees in the surrounding woods slowly crescendoed from a murmur of pale gold 
to a full-throated song of orange and russet red. 
Yesterday morning I walked through the garden, now quiet and hushed except for the crackle of fallen leaves on the path and the calls of a few winter birds. 
The leaves lie on the ground and pale winter sunlight has replaced the mysterious shadows and deep colors of autumn. The fall symphony has come to a close and winter waits in the wings, a new season carrying its own quiet beauty.
You can see the beautiful progression of color and leaf fall here – enjoy!
Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release – it’s what the trees do. ~ka’ala
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Wow, Lynn, your videos just keep getting better and better. It’s a delight to hear your voice this time and a lovely voice for narration it is. 🙂 The colors you’ve brought into the garden over the years are like a symphony, particularly that Hydrangea/hickory combination. But what I kept coming back to was the open-branched tree that’s fan or vase-shaped of several photos and in the video. Oh, that’s a beauty! It seems to complement everything.
Thank you for the wonderful compliment, Lynn – I have been working on those video skills and am having fun with it. I think the tree that you mentioned is the native mulberry that stands behind the fence. I love it, so graceful as if it is dancing no matter the season, plus it feeds all the birds and creatures with a bounty of berries in the summer. And my camera keeps gravitating to it 🙂
It feeds the heart, soul, and belly. Nice! 🙂
Looking forward to more videos – but don’t stop the still photography! 😉
What a marvellous place to let go!
Thank you Mitch – the garden encourages it 🙂
Beautiful video, Lynn. Makes the viewer feel as though he/she is right there in the garden, led by the splendid narration.
Thank you for watching, Kerry – that was exactly my intent, to share the walk within the garden.
It appears that my comment, written a few days ago didn’t post for some reason, so let me try again.
Beautiful video, Lynn. It embodies that je ne sais quoi value that makes the viewer feel as though he/she is right there with you, guided by the splendid narration.
Lovely colors and your delightfully poetic video and commentary. A joy to watch and listen. A quiet final movement to autumn’s wonderful symphony.
Thank you, Richard – your perceptive last sentence “A quiet final movement to autumn’s wonderful symphony” is exactly how I feel. 🙂
My apologies for being a bit late in commenting..
I enjoyed your video, the garden looks glorious in autumn ( my favourite season) and your narration was lovely. Enjoy your falling leaves!
It’s never too late, Gerrie! Thank you, nice to know someone else loves autumn. Alas, the leaves are all gone and winter is upon us – time to bring the color into the house for Christmas 🙂
I’m a little bit late to comment, but I absolutely loved your video, with music and commentary. Autumn is my favourite season, aren’t the colours wonderful!
A delightful video to end a lovely post.
Thank you, tootlepedal – my way of saying farewell to autumn
Beautiful video, Lynn. It allowed me to imagine as though I was there, experiencing the magic of autumn in real time.
Love the video Lynn.
Thank you Jude – it captures the moments for certain 🙂
Great fall colors indeed!
Inquiring minds want to know: do you also love the fun of running through crisp leaves?
Hah! I’ve slipped on my butt a few times out there, no lasting harm but no running for me at this stage of life!
So at this stage running means running a risk—with all the ifs, ands, or butts.
Ha ha – exactly!
Mmm glorious grows your garden! Pixie may think it is all just for them. Such beauty!
Pixie absolutely thinks it is all for her, she is in her glory in the garden. 🙂
What a wonderful tour. And how inspiring!
Thank you, Bernadette – I do love autumn even though it leads to winter 😦
I love winter, at least the look of it, so it’s a joy for me. But even without the cold and snow, watching the garden go to bed all its own to wake up a few months from now with no help from us is an amazing experience each year.
So well put, Bernadette. I’m finally getting the last few things in the garden put away and snuggling in with Pixie for the winter.
Thanks for sharing the beauty of your garden. I loved the video!!!! The sights were glorious but combined with the script and the music, you provide several minutes of magic. Thank you.
Thank you Frank, so glad you enjoyed the video! Minutes of magic are a good thing 🙂
It certainly does look like a gorgeous and slow-paced autumn in your paradisiacal corner of the Earth, Lynn! Thanks for the beautiful views and food for the spirit!
Thank you, Kitty – it does feel like a bit of paradise here when I walk through the garden with Miss Pixie. : )
Stunning! Just magical. I feel I discovered a well-kept secret.
Thank you Crystal, what a lovely thing to say!
Your garden is lovely in all seasons, Lynn. I loved your video!
Thank you, Eliza! So glad you enjoyed the video, it was fun to put together : )
Your garden is SO beautiful! And you are so very poetic! I love your posts. I miss western PA in the Fall. We do not get nearly the Fall colors here in NC. Of course the mountains do, but that is 3 hours away, and everyone else goes there, which makes for crowds and traffic. Having grown up in Uniontown, we were very close to the mountains, & made a trek there every Fall–sometimes more than once or twice.
Thank you so much, Nancy! There are advantages to gardening in NC, especially for a broader range of plants, but I do love being here. Even in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, we get the full four season effect!
And yet some plants I had success with in PA, won’t do well here–such as Geraniums. We do have Magnolias (we have 2 huge ones in our yard), a fig tree, pampas grasses, etc, which would not do well in western PA!
So true – few plants grow everywhere, so it’s a case of “garden where you’re planted” 🙂
Right! We have so many deer, that it’s a waste of time and money to plant a variety. So our shaded back yard has LOTS of Lenten Roses. Good thing I love them! I put beautiful flowers on the open deck, where hopefully the deer don’t climb the steps! I never saw that happen, but then I watched a video taken in my neighborhood. On that video I actually saw a deer climb up steps onto a porch!