Autumn

By God's grace and through His love, I am witnessing my first "real" fall ever! Before we moved to North Carolina, we were told by many that we would experience four unique seasons. Coming from Louisiana and Texas, I'm used to the usual "hot" and "hotter." It is truly His gift to me that we would arrive just in time to see the beauty of changing leaves. I have been AMAZED at it. Many times as I leave our driveway, I stop to poke my phone out the window of the car to take another picture of one beautiful tree and thought I would share a couple!

(PS - If you know me, this is so NOT typical! I tease my husband for taking pictures of landscapes and nature, insisting that I only want pictures "with someone I love" in it. Oh, how circumstances change.)

This is our cute little house, taken the last week in September, about a week before we moved in. Notice the big tree in the upper left corner... That is some type of maple and the same tree that is in most of the following photos.

These are some that I took probably the second or third week. It was breathtaking - the different colors of the leaves against the piercing blue of the sky. Same tree...from the car window.

Also from the car window... This is about a week and a half ago.

And this was last week. The tree now has almost no leaves on it. I'm on our porch here.

This is our neighborhood. It is a "walking" neighborhood - perfect for me! On this day, I was walking around, listening to Anne of Green Gables, and the leaves were raining on me. It was ...well, "magical" is as close as I can get here. I now go walking and literally pray for a gust of wind when I come to a tree that is losing leaves!

And this beautiful red leaf is a gift to me that God has put by my car in the church parking lot (no trees!) for the past two Sundays. Both times, I've brought them home.