Autumn in Ohio

 

 

 We have been out and about driving the Ohio countryside every week looking for autumn color. Some of the brightest was just around the corner at a local park. Bright and beautiful.




Englewood Reserve.

Hiking through Englewood reserve hearing the crunching of autumn leaves beneath our feet. The wind blowing leaves into colorful banks. It brought back memories of jumping in piles of leaves when I was kid. Osage oranges, the size of softballs hang heavy in the trees and once in a while you hear one drop and hit the ground with a thud. Their bright green contrasts against the earth.

Osage Oranges amidst the leaves.

The woods in the fall are quiet and peaceful. Squirrels are busy racing up and down the tree trunks and across the canopy above. Yellow glows bright under an overcast sky.

Englewood Reserve.

Out in the country we came across this old rusty windmill set against a backdrop of a farm at the end of a dirt road. It was the perfect still life, a moment that could belong to the distant past or the present.

Windmill old farm.

Horses grazed peacefully in a meadow framed by the burgundy and bright green leaves of  vines upon a fence. When they heard out voices they came for a visit.

Corn and soybeans are left in the fields to dry and I loved the movement of the corn in this field. Bent by the wind, the sound of rustling in the dried fronds. Waves of corn undulating in the breeze.

Drying corn.

                                            
                                                Glorious color, stately, a wow moment.

Local park.

Farmland on layers of color; in the foreground drying soybeans, beyond a corn field that has been harvested, a bright red barn set against the changing colors of the woods and a blue sky. Lovely.

Layers; soybeans, harvested corn, tree line.

Back road somewhere.

As they say the journey is what it is all about. We never really have a destination when we head out. You never know what you may find, like this natural tunnel of trees on some back road to the north.
The road beckons and leads us to all sorts of beautiful and interesting places. Explore your world, even if it is just down the road a piece...