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AUTUMN 2025

Korean Dogwood (Cornus Kousa) Fruit

Whatever happened with the weather earlier in the year produced abundant fruit on all the wild trees: autumn olive, Allegheny blackberries, callery pear, viburnums and crab apples.

I've never witnessed so many fruit on a Korean dogwood tree. Ideally, they grow in a woodland setting or in a garden receiving gentle morning sun. This trio is planted in full sun. So they're usually scorched by summer's end with scanty, shriveled fruit in autumn.

Photogenic Korean dogwood fruit looks like a cross between paddle cactus and lychee fruit. But don't expect the succulent taste of cactus and lychee fruit... if you choose to eat them.

Evening light shines on Korean dogwood tree fruit.

Leaves and fruit of a Korean dogwood tree.

The sun sets behind a branch of Korean dogwood fruit.

Giant Foxtail seed heads glow during sunset.

Giant Foxtail Grass Seed Heads

Autumn's dim evening light transforms the "weed" giant foxtail seed heads (Sateria Faberia) into incandescent magic.

Irresistible Evening Backlight

Backlit yellow flowers and goldenrod make a dreamy scene. With the goldenrod flowers sweet scent, rustling leaves and the gentle breeze swaying everything, the scene's even dreamier. If you ignore the highway traffic and the strip mall on the other side of it.

It's a fleeting capsule dream within an unbeautiful reality.

Top and bottom left: Woodland Sunflower (Helianthus Divaricatus). Sure I've said it once; I'll say it again. Woodland sunflower is a confusing name. The flowers grow along woodland edges or clearings within the woods. Not in the woods; it's too dark. Right: A tangle of goldenrod (Solidago spp.) flowers. I finally adjusted to seasonal day length to capture images and video in my beloved golden light.

A faded but bright yellow flower above seed heads at sunset.

Three yellow flowers shine in dim sunset light.

Lanky stems of goldenrod flowers glow in the evening sunlight.

Sunset Slips Into Twilight

All day it rained. When the clouds break, I rushed out to capture goldenrod flowers. But the sun was dipping below the horizon. No goldenrod flowers and their pollinators. Just another stunning autumn twilight.

Setting sun peeks though a silhouette of trees in a cloudy sky.

6:43 PM western sky

6:48 PM eastern sky

A dramatic sunset with painterly clouds.

7:00 PM western sky

7:00 PM western sky

7:05 PM eastern sky

A darkness descends as the sun sinks below the horizon.

7:08 PM western sky

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