Untitled, photo by Brooke Pennington
Although an early leaf drop has been forecast, it seems from the photos in the Absolute Michigan pool that pockets of fall color are still to be found.
Check this out on black and see more in Brooke’s bokeh slideshow.
More bokeh on Michigan in Pictures including Ross’s excellent photo and explanation of what bokeh is and isn’t.
Michigan in Pictures 
The photo today on Michigan In Pictures reminded me of a poem I was inspired to write a few years ago upon seeing a leaf tenaciously clinging in the early weeks of Winter. I wrote:
Autumn’s Last Leaf
Before the biting arctic wind
autumn’s last leaf helplessly clings.
Other leaves, less tenacious
lie wet and matted
beneath the season’s first snowfall.
Nothing shows of summer’s pointillistic canvas
save the occasional fir tree and bramble.
Winter’s pen and ink simplicity waxes gray and white
to show the landscape’s ebb and flow
in chiaroscuro light.
In the cold of winter the luckless suffer
the impatient perish,
yet here and there
the tracks of bird and rabbit
show how life goes on.
If autumn’s last leaf were to weather wind and ice
and snow and feel again the tepid balm of April-spring,
it would surely come to naught
for nothing dead can cling
before the swelling of a tender bud.
© 2008 James Rasmusson
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It really does make me sad to know that these days are coming to a close. Winter is such a harsh time to shoot and the pickings are slim. It makes me long for the last line of James poem.
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