For Wordless Wednesday, let your images tell the story.
“Each leaf of the Ginkgo tells a tale of resilience, whispered softly with every rustle.” – Unknown
“Autumn whispered to the wind, ‘I fall but always rise again’.” ~ Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Autumn flew with fire & sun until her last breath was said and done.” ~ Angie Weiland-Crosby
Sharing for Cees FOTD, Dawn’s Festival of Leaves and Lens-Artists: In the details.
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Hi Terri. Your photos are beautiful and so colorful. I love the details too. Perfect for the challenge!
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I love ginkgo trees, they are so special. Your photos are beautiful, Terri, especially the close up with all the little details.
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Thank you, Sofia! With all of our photos challenges to consider, I’ve learned to take pics of different angles. The ginkgo trees were perfect for Lens artists last week! 💛
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Absolutely.
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I love Ginkgos, not just because they are ancient and don’t have real leaves – but because of their magnificent colour. A wonderful post, Terri!
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Thank you, Anne-Christine! They are beautiful in the spring and summer, too. Not real leaves…hmmm, now you have me wondering. 😁
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They are more related to conifers and ferns. I f you look closely, you can see the spines making up the leaf! They are living fossils.
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Very cool. I looked it up after I read your comment. And the leaves are edible in small doses!
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And good for ones brain and memory!
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Magnificent, Terri
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Thank you, Toni!
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Gorgeous! Love the circles of leaves on the ground, especially.
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Thank you, Debbie. The campus groundskeepers and volunteers get a kick out of creating the circles. The ginkgo leaves are perfect for doing so.
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Glorious golden leaves! I love that ‘landscaping’ of them – just beautiful 🙂
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Thank you, I was so happy to capture them in 2018 about this time of year in Sacramento, Sarah.
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Gorgeous Terri.
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Thank you, Leanne!
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How lovely, Terri! I like the car tracks through the leaves!
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Thanks, Miriam. Those are tracks the university landscapers created every season.
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This is just a golden post Terri. These are beautiful leaves and trees. You are lucky to live amongst such beauty.
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Thank you, Linda! This ginkgo Grove is on the Sacramento State university campus. I snapped those shots in 2018, 6 years ago this week!
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Oh, I remember now you said that was where you were working at the time – they are beautiful trees. We have them here, but I’ve never seen one.
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Kind of like the western larches that turn golden in the fall, both trees are green most of the year. Pretty but not dramatic 😆
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I first saw the western larches in your photos – I liked that they were only yellow.
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And thanks for being my friend on Duolingo! Bonne nuit, gute nacht!
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Yes, we’re having some fun with that Terri. I missed your last monumental streak by four days! Bonne nuit, auf wiedersehen.
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I had that great streak because I finished German after 5 years. So I restarted the course and sailed through section one in two days. No regrets, my study habits are better now and it’s good to review the basics.
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I see – I would restart the course again too … I have a long way to go before I get there. 🙂 Yesterday we got another 25 words. Memorizing new vocabulary words with their genders and accent marks is one thing, but conjugating verbs is the harder part in my opinion.
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Beautiful! 👏👏 Nicely done.
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Thanks so much, John!
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HI, Terri – Those Yellow Ginkgoes are absolutely stunning. I swear I can smell their sweet aroma from here!
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Thank you, Donna! They’re definitely eye-candy!
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Oh my Terri, you did a masterful job with this one. I kept thinking I’d seen my favorite until I moved to the next one and then the one after that……you get the idea. The last is indeed my favorite but I loved them all. Perfect for the week’s challenge.
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Oh thank you Tina! The ginkgo grove on the university campus was a magical sight every year about this time. I’m so glad I could add this to Lens-Artists this week.
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Lovely! Fall is my favourite season🥰
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Thank you, Christie, mine too!
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Beautiful gold colors
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Thank you, Lisa!
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Such beautiful yellow tones. Lovely photos!
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Thank you, Egidio!
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Fabulous yellows, Terri. I don’t thibk I’ve seen a Gingko tree before.
Have a great rest of the week!
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Thank you, Cathy. Ginkgoes like warm weather but they can do well in Eastern Washington.
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Glorious gold
Memories of Dad burning leaves
In the late autumn cold.
Smoke rising in rusette and grey plumes
Memories of days so old
💜💜🤗
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Aww, what a beautiful ode to ginkgo’s gold! If it wasn’t raining so much here this week, people would be burning their leaves here, too.
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The weather is strange is t it 💜💜
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My comment seems to have been lost in the ether, so I’ll try again. I love the yellow leaves. They and the bright red ones are so beautiful. When the girls were little and we lived in Ohio, they used to love to jump in the leaf piles one we had the leaves raked up. I never minded raking leaves because they were so emblematic of fall and great exercise as well. 🙂
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I got both comments, Janet. Sometimes is takes a minute for WP to show them. When my girls were young, they also liked jumping in the mulberry leaves we had.
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I did reload the page after going back a few minutes later. Sorry for the doubling up. Feel free to remove one comment if you like.
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No worries, Janet! I like comments 😁
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Just gorgeous, Terri.
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Thank you, Graham! We just planted one here. The GM at the nursery down the street says they grow here too.
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That will look beautiful I’m sure.
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It might take 15 years, lol. I’ll be 79!
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A spring chicken then!
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Beautiful, Terri. The yellow and bright red leaves are always especially beautiful. When the girls were little, they loved to jump in the leaf piles. I never minded raking the leaves. I first saw gingko leaves when we lived in Illinois. They’re lovely.
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Thank you, Janet! Autumn is now in full swing in Sacramento. Ours here is barely lingering and snow is in the forecast. At our home in Sacramento we had two huge fruitless mulberry trees that turned yellow in the fall. We also had a Japanese maple that was bright red by early December. The colors really popped.
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Oh those yellows💛!
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The university campus has a Grove of the ginkgo trees. This is the time of year to experience their golden yellows. It was funny to see students walking to classes, taking time to snap pics!
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Wow, I looove the beautiful colors, Terri, and the lines of leaves on the grass. Nicely done! ❤️❤️😊
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Thank you, John! The ginkgo Grove is on the Sacramento state university campus. I snapped these pics in 2018. It was always so wonderful to walk through them this time of year. 💛
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You’re welcome, Terri, have a great week! 😊
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I would love to plant a Ginko tree in my front yard. If only… 🍂
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We actually did this year, Colleen! I had no idea they could grow here.
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How wonderful! I love the shape of the leaves and the color in autumn is so pretty.
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Great pictures 🍁🍂
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Thank you, Anne. I took all these on the Sacramento State campus in 2018. You’ll have to visit this month, when they are in their yellow glory. The ginkgo trees are near the front of campus, where there is visitor parking 🙂
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Thank you, Robbie!
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Beautiful Ginko leaves.
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Glad you saw the comment, Anne. My comment reply attached itself to Robbie’s comment. In any case, the Sac State campus is a great place for taking pics in all seasons.
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