Color, Color, Color Everywhere

Every time I go outside, I want to grab my camera and take a picture. Why? Because of this:

And this:

And these:

See? Everywhere I look, there is so much color around me....bright golds, burnt oranges, crimsons, leafy greens, crisp browns....it is truly just beautiful. The sun shines through them making them glow, and even on a cloudy yucky day like we had Saturday, the colors stood out even more and were just begging to be photographed (which they would have been....if I had charged the battery on my camera. Grrrrrr. Nothing like trying to take a picture and finding out the camera is dead.....and takes a good few hours to re-charge. So, so much for taking those pics on a rainy day.)

Anyway, out of the 4 seasons, Fall is the prettiest one we have here in Virginia and it just makes me want to get out the camera and snap snap snap. But then I pause and think, okay, so what am I going to do with all these pictures of trees and leaves? Well, wait, we'll put Hector and Sean Michael in front of them and that way I have photos of them in front of all those trees and leaves. Except I have a heck of a lot of pictures of those two, too. Hmmmm.

So I resigned myself to just taking a few on Sunday, some of just the trees and some with Hector and Sean Michael in front of them. And I will just have to enjoy the color on my way home from work (thankfully it's too dark in the morning and I'm too tired to think of taking photos then anyway), and by next week the color show will be done and over, replaced by bare trees and ugly brown leaves that are left behind, and I'm ready to leave the camera behind.