Autumn (Fall) Colours - Thematic Photography

I used all my colourful photos last year and as yet the trees near us in the North East of England are only just starting to turn. Carmi's theme of fall colours looked like being difficult for me until I received this shot from my daughter in Michigan taken in her grounds at the weekend..

Michigan colours in the fall

This afternoon touring our village I found one tree that had decided autumn had come - shame about the pole.

Kirklevington tree

Shame also that I don't know what sort of tree it is. Perhaps someone can tell me from this close-up.

A little further down the lane to the left of the tree a shrub had also decided it was autumn too.

However the view that caught my attention early this morning, while the frost was still on the ground and before the sun was up, was not the colours of the trees but this up in the sky.

Vapour trails 

 

We are on the flight path for planes to and from Amsterdam and these are the vapour trails as they break down after the plane(s) have gone.

To other autumn colours you need to fly off to Thematic-photographic-216-fall-colors

All A Glow - Thematic Photography

As I had used up all my sunsets, sunrise and rainbow shots before, I had to search my archive to come up with these. Otherwise my face would be red, or aglow if you prefer.

A Facebook friend of mine posted this sometime ago with his permission to use it if we wished.

Bonfire Glow

(courtesy of Jack Owen)

And here's a glow I picked up on my travels.

Montelbaan Tower, Amsterdam

I know we've just done after dark but nevertheless this construction site positively glows.

Statfjord 'B' at Rosenberg Verft, Stavanger

My final picture came from astronomy research which I can only cannot trace from the photo caption and which shows a sunrise at an ancient site.

Chankillo Sunrise

Now I guess I shall have to find out about Chankillo again while you visit other folks and places that glow at 

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Mundane Planes - Sepia Saturday

Just back after a week away in Cornwall. Route was from Leed/Bradford airport with Airsouthwest to Newquay with a short stop at Bristol on the way. The aircraft was a Dash 8-300; sorry Airsouthwest but the only photo I could find is from Japan:

All Nippon Airways Bombadier Dash 8 Q300, JA805K on Memanbetsu Airport.

Otherwise the only planes I could find are on postcards that I sent to my daughter back in the 1980s.

Postcard from a trip to Saarbrucken from Norway.

On this occasion I was routed via Amsterdam where I found this card of Schipol:

You'll find many more planes at Sepia Saturday 74

Clock In For Sepia Saturday

In the days before clocks you had to devise other means to tell the time:

Sundial Cottage, Kirklevington

At this university the students, including my daughter, had no excuse for being late to lectures:

Birmingham University

You may have to look hard to check the time when sight seeing in Holland:

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

It's not much clearer in this university town where my daughter spent a year:

Freiburg, Germany

But nearer home everything becomes much clearer:

Yarm Town Hall Clock (Not taken in 1710)

Clock in for more at Sepia Saturday 72