Another Final Ode To Autumn In Pictures

Niagara At Large is pleased to feature some of the fine photo images captured by residents in our region – these by Dan Wilson.

“Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.”

From Robert Frost’s poem, Gathering Leaves

The last of those rustling leaves are gathering on the ground all around us and in the wind – running away – as the first frost kills off what are left of the geraniums and snow gets ready to fall.

A trail along Ball's Falls. Photo by Dan Wilson.

The greater Niagara region has plenty of colourful beauty to show off in the Fall, from the trees that grace the Delaware Park area in Buffalo, New York to those that feature an equally beautiful tapestry of colours in the Effingham and Short Hills areas of Niagara, Ontario and beyond. Dan Wilson, a friend and supporter of Niagara At Large, who has contributed his thoughtful prose and his fine photography to this site on a number of occasions in the past, has done it again with some very nice  parting shots of Autumn.
The first one offers an image of a hike along the trail through the Ball’s Falls area, preserved as a natural heritage area by the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, and the second just about tells it all about this rainy Fall with the almost daily droplets of rain of colouring leaves.

Photo by Dan Wilson

Niagara At Large invites others to share their photos, featuring the great or even the bad and ugly of our greater region on both sides of the border, for possible use here. You can send them in jpegs with notes to describe where they are taken and what they are about to drapers@vaxxine.com.

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