Wordless Wednesday: Looking Back on Autumns Past

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For Wordless Wednesday, let your images tell the story.

autumn colors at Freestone Inn
Freestone Inn, Mazama, Washington
Leafy Northern Lights
Leafy Aurora, Winthrop, Washington
October Aurora
October Aurora, North Cascades, Washington

“I’m so glad to live in a world where there are Octobers.” Anne of Green Gables

pumpkin display

Sharing for Lens-Artists: Looking Back into Autumns Past, Dawn’s Festival of Leaves, and Wednesday Quotes: Autumn.

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80 responses to “Wordless Wednesday: Looking Back on Autumns Past”

  1. What beautiful fall happenings for you! Love all the pumpkins. And your Aurora sky is incredible. Happy Fall my friend. I am so glad you are enjoying it!

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    1. Thank you, Nancy! Happy Fall to you!

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  2. Stunning colours, and the Aurora is amazingly beautiful!

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    1. Thank you, Anne-Christine! It was fun to look back at last October!

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  3. These are stunning pictures Terri, especially the one paired with the Aurora! I like how the gourds are in these cubbyholes – it makes for a fun picture. (I was having issues with WP last night and finally gave up on it and left – the site either froze in place or kept saying “duplicate – you’ve already said that!”)

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    1. Thank you, Linda! Last October had some memorable moments. Sorry to hear about your WP stuff. It’s still glitchy. I have to “log in” to WP on many bloggers sites. Clearly I’m logged in.

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      1. October is my favorite month of the year – the beauty, the cooler air – you can’t beat it. I logged on here around 7:00ish and the “Comments” area was blank and my blog homepage was just the flowered background and nothing else. I logged out and in again and it’s fine now. Maybe that is the solution going forward.

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      2. Weird. WP has gotten twitchy again. Do you need to change your blogs theme?

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      3. I think it is too much AI Terri to be honest. Now when I’m writing a comment, AI is trying to help me out grammatically! It is bad enough with MS Office Word sometimes butting in! 🙂 I hope I don’t need to change my blog theme anytime soon. I know it is inevitable, but I’ll be like Scarlet O’Hara and think about it another day. Hopefully, not until I’m forced into it when I run out of media space and have to upgrade to the Business Plan like a few fellow bloggers have had to do. Despite my picture-laden posts, I have only used 1.5 GB out of 13 GB upload limit (12%).

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      4. You should be able to disable AI in the comments. At least I can on my phone. Changing blog themes is so much easier than it was before. I change mine once a year. What size are your pics? That’s pretty good storage!

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      5. Oh, I have to look into that because that is something new and I’m assuming it is a new WP feature and not the overall Windows 11 updates I did the other day as I leave them to ensure there are no issues like happened to me back in April or May with a bad Windows update. I didn’t know it was that easy to change themes. I used the simplest theme when I created my blog in 2011. I size my photos to about 675 X 675 and my header image at 700 X 700. I do a screenshot of my photos to ensure I keep them at that size if at all possible. I was happy about that too – I do have to see if there is a way to tell how much storage space the rest of the blog takes up since I write such long posts.

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      6. Its only the media files that take up space, not words. You must comment on a laptop or computer? I have all that windows software but it doesn’t translate onto the Jetpack app if used on your phone. I had AI while working on my PC in WP, but I disabled it. I use grammarly too, which actually helps!

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      7. Okay, that’s good to know Terri. I couldn’t see how they would have a separate amount of “space” for text too. I only comment on a laptop as I don’t use a smartphone for WP. I think I will disable it too, especially in Word where I draft my posts as AI has a bugaboo about doing two spaces following a period. I know that is the trend now – one space following a period, but for decades I’ve done it the other way, so … but, when I transfer my text to a new WP post, it changes it to one space, so I just let it go. No words sometimes. AI also wants to put a comma before a quotation too and before the word “and” something I’ve not ever done. I think I tried out Grammarly once – we disagreed on some things. 🙂

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  4. I’m always happy when bloggers post their fall pictures. As you know, the colors can be a bit underwhelming her. 😎 Thanks goodness for a few liquid ambers scattered here and there.

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    1. Thank you, Janis! I walked on the local trail today, but only yellows were present. Another week for the red maples. I remember visiting San Diego near Christmas time and seeing liquid ambers in their autumn glory. Too bad the eucalyptus don’t change colors 😉

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  5. Those auroras are gorgeous! And I so liked the pumpkins! Nicely done.

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    1. Thank you, Joanne! So happy to have seen such a strong aurora last year–twice!

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    1. Thanks, Dawn. I also errantly linked my post to your L-A post. Thanks for hosting! 🍁

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      1. Thanks for fixing that. 🙂

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  6. Glorious, Terri – I love autumn so much

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    1. Thank you, Toni, me, too! 🍂🍁

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  7. Beautiful post, Terri. Beautiful autumn colors, and I love the pumpkin display. 🍂

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    1. Thank you, Eugi! Our local nursery had the pumpkins on display. So festive! 🎃

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      1. You’re welcome, Terri.

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  8. Gorgeous photos, Terri. The quote of Anne of Green Gables—yes, I agree! 🍁🐝

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    1. Thank you, Mitzy! Miss Anne got it right!

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  9. Dear Terri
    We see you love the autumn like we do.
    Your pictures radiate a wonderful autumn feeling. Thanks
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    1. Thank you, KB! It’s that obvious, richtig? Our fall colors come to a peak here soon 🍁🍂

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    2. Ja, richtig.

      From one lover of autumns to the other.

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  10. Beautiful, Teri, I love the pumpkins 😀

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    1. Thank you, Sofia! Our local nursery manager is very clever!

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  11. That pumpkin display is fabulous! Thanks for sharing it!

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    1. Thanks, Kym! I’m glad I snapped it!

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  12. Absolutely beautiful photos! I love how you present the colors with warmth in light and shadows, Terri.

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    1. Thanks so much, Suzette! Autumn was on point last October!

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      1. Most excellent! Have a wonderful day, Terri.

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  13. These are so colorful, Terri. It pleases my eyes.

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    1. Thank you, Hazel. I imagine you wouldn’t see many northern lights where you live. We feel blessed to see them.

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      1. Indeed, you are blessed to see Northern lights, Terri. We don’t have that here, but, still I enjoyed the sky no matter what. The moon, stars, clouds and everything above. My pleasure, Terri!

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  14. A wonderful gallery, Terri. Your autumn aurora is my favorite, but that opening photo is a great start to the post!

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    1. Thank you, John! You picked a great theme. We’re just getting started with fall colors here, but last year about this time, it was more colorful. Its been too cloudy to see auroras this year so far.

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  15. Wow! Astonishing views. The Mazama photo is a dream.

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    1. Thank you, Egidio! The North Cascades in WA certainly showed off their fall colors, with a sky full of auroras to boot!

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  16. Beautiful response Terri – so glad our subjects complimented each other!

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    1. Thank you, Tina. It was fun to look back one year ago!

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  17. Mesmerizing shades of autumn 🙂

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    1. Thank you, Kerri! Autumn knows how to put on a good show!

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      1. That’s so true, in so so many ways!

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      1. You’re welcome my friend

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  18. Such beautiful images of autumn, the colors are stunning. The locations look great too

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    1. Thank you, Ritva 🎃 the pumpkins are conveniently down the street, the rest were taken in the Northern Cascades of Washington. Awe-inspiring to visit there.

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  19. Very beautiful photos, Terri!! ❤️☺️

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    1. Thank you, John! Some great memories from last October.

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      1. You’re welcome. ☺️

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  20. A whole bunch of wows Terri. You are so lucky to have skies like that

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    1. Thank you, Brian! Autumn 2024 was one for the books. We keep missing this year’s auroras due to cloudy skies 🤨

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  21. Gorgeous auroras!

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    1. Thanks, Bernie! We were far enough north last year to see them wavering and dancing.

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  22. Love those aurora images, especially the first one. Such colors.

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    1. Thank you, Graham. Oct 7th last year, this was in Winthrop. The colors kept changing and I kept clicking. I’ve missed the last two here due to cloud cover this year.

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  23. Have to agree with that quote, Terri. Second shot is my favourite xx

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    1. Autumn 2024 was spectacular, Jo! Thank you!

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  24. Love the pumpkin cubicles!

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    1. Aren’t those great? In our rural area, down our street is a 10-acre farm that hosts a month long fall festival. They are very creative!

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      1. Looks like a lot of fun. Good photo of a very well crafted display.

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  25. So pretty. We’re still mostly green around here, though some maples are turning. I went up north last week and it’s a couple of hours driving north before you start to see significant color. I remember that October aurora. It was spectacular.

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    1. Thank you, Dawn! Autumn is here but peak is in two weeks, I’m guessing. There were a couple of auroras this year but we had cloudy skies!

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      1. I don’t know where you live, but there are predicted more aurora this week, if you’re above the 45th parrelel for sure. I know I spelled that wrong, but I’m in a hurry. I was in northern Michigan these past 7 days and I saw them 2x. Not as brilliant as that year with the crazy lights, but still there. I think they were out almost every night to a lesser degree, but I only went out 2 nights. I hope you see them!

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      2. We’re a little north of Spokane, WA. It’s good and dark here. I have an Aurora app that alerts me!

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