The overriding color of autumn here in Tübingen is yellow-gold, the current color of most of the leaves, particularly those that have already dropped from the trees. It’s like a golden carpet everywhere you turn:
Golden Leaves, Tübingen, November 2011
A couple of weeks ago in my German class, we read a poem that talked about how all the leaves turn red in Germany in autumn. I said at the time, well I guess it wasn’t written about this area, since the red leaves were nowhere to be found in Tübingen. All I’d seen at that point were the yellow-gold ones.
Then the other day, I took a different path back from the language school, cutting across a park I’d only been to once before. The part is next to the train station – there are all kinds of little parks like this scattered around Tübingen. As I came down the path, I realized I’d finally stumbled across some of those famous red leaves in autumn in Germany:
A lone red tree, Tübingen
Pretty. See, this is why I always carry a camera with me on my errands – you never know when you’ll run into a great photographic opportunity.
But wait, there’s more, as the saying goes. As though that wasn’t serendipity enough for one day, as I waited for the camera to finish writing the photo to the disk, I glanced to my left:
Colors of Autumn, Tübingen
Wow. Is that a scene, or is that scene. I’d forgotten there was a little lake in that park, and with that reflection of those trees and those colors. You couldn’t ask for a more colorful view of autumn than that.
I definitely need to take this path coming back from the language school more often. Luckily, my next class starts again on Monday. 🙂
Gee, for a little park it holds a lot. The lake alone looks “big.”
Our autumn isn’t the prettiest, some trees are really colorful, others drab. Lots of leaves on the ground now.
We haven’t had enough cold nights I guess to give us the bright colors.
Again, great pics. The lake photo is great color.
Wow that park and tree are really cool. Autumn. The clarion call of cold and gray here in Sunless Syracuse, but I love it here for all of that. I am not a sun worshiper. Our autumns are awesome when the sun does shine. It wakes up all the colors, red, yellow, orange and still the greens of the evergreen, cedar and other winter greenery. Yep, there is nothing like a good old change of scenery. And I don’t have to climb down the icy hill to get my buss this year!!! that is worth a pile of worry and anxiety so I am looking forward to this winter. My dear Bob will also have it easier this winter. He is getting old after all. Your print is excellent.
And, you took a picture of our vacation home. (Wishful thinking!)
Gorgeous!
(How long does your camera take to write photos? What kind of camera uses a disk? This sounds like some retro-cool paleolithic digital camera project…)
That lake picture is so delicious, I had to make a copy of it. First, I enlarge it and then I transfer it to iphoto; and then I print it, just like magic! (That is the third one i have copied since I sat down for the first time after being nine days without electricity.)