Yesterday’s sunset seen from my backyard:

Sunset with colors in the sky, Pacific Northwest style

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I took this photo of a red-twig Japanese maple beginning to show fall color a few years ago on this date. As my skills improve (and do you think that the 1,359 photo blog posts and the over five years of photo blogging might have something to do with that?) I find that I can go back to images that were pretty good and with a few subtle tweaks, give me an image I love. I hope you like this one, taken on a Seattle sidewalk.

Autumn turns a green leaf Japanese maple to red, yellow, and orange

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Heart-shaped leaves express how I feel about this season. The light coming through the leaves really makes me happy.

Heart-shaped yellow autumn leaf on a tree lit with sunshine

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These Japanese anemones are blooming right now outside our window. This is from through the window glass.

Lavender Japanese anemones, from the back

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Ivy turns the most gorgeous autumn shade of red. This wall not too far from my house has a good display.

English ivy decorates a wall with fall color

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At the Renton (WA) Fall Harvest Festival on Saturday, I was surprised to see these bouquets of dahlias that included intensely fragrant lilies. The ones in my garden have long been finished. I bought some and the entire house is filled with their scent.

Brilliant dahlias and fragrant Oriental lilies in an early October bouquet

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These pretty gerbera daisy flowers were in a florist shop, begging me to take them home. Such sweet pinkness!

Pink gerbera daisies at a Seattle florist shop

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Someone brought these cutie cupcakes to a great party on Saturday. And it looks like someone sampled the pretty red icing, too!

Adorable mini cupcakes, with sprinkles

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I am not ready to let summer go. Here is one of my peonies from June of this year.

Pink peony blossom

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This ferry-in-the-sunset photo is very similar to one I posted about three years ago, but I think it deserves a re-run. I had just gotten my new camera and hadn’t mastered all the settings (not that I’ve done so by now) and it needed a tad of adjustment, but hardly any. Those are the Olympic Mountains in the distance.

Ferryboat plies the Puget Sound waters off Seattle

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