Although sourwood trees typically turn red in the autumn, several on our property have been a brilliant copper color, possibly from the large amount of rain we had earlier. Two days ago, the sun shining through the leaves cast a beautiful glow that lit up the entire back of the house. The sun through the trees was perfect for Frizztext’s A-Z Challenge which features the letter “S” this week.
To participate in the challenge or to see other posts featuring the letter “S,” go to http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/s-challenge/
Brilliant and beautiful indeed!
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thank you for your sourwood gallery!
P.S.:
as for your R-contribution, ROPES:
no, do not remove, there are ropes,
and if someone takes a rope for suicide,
it was his decision.
Not guilty: ropes – or your photo.
I only dared to tell you my association –
and thank you for reading it.
As Naomi Baltuk wrote for my S-challenge:
“…so long as there is
someone left to tell it
and someone willing to listen,
the story will survive…”
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Thank you for your comments, Frizztext. I already removed the R photo. I had some hesitation about using that photo in the first place because a rope can mean so many things to different people. Then, when you shared your story I knew I had to remove it.
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my mother Edith, living in the near of Prora, in Bergen on the island Rugen, made suicide with a rope – why not to focus on that: she gave me into an orphanage immediately after birth (als “unwertes Leben”) – I found her after 40 years of searching and made a confrontation, asking: WHY? She was a person indoctrinated by ideologies. She made suicide after the “Iron Curtain”, the Berlin Wall fell down: she was sure, that communism was a good ideology – and now it seemed, she made some wrong decisions in her life…
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beautiful colors
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Thank you. The colors are unusually nice this year.
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Lovely to see your sourwood collection. It’s a new tree to me…
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Thank you. Sourwood trees are everywhere here.
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Beautiful sourwood photos! Perfect for the R challenge!
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Thank you. It won’t be long now before the leaves all drop and the branches will be bare.
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Such lovel;y autumn captures! looks like an amazing place to go for a walk!
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Thank you. I took these photos from the back deck of my house. We live in a wooded area, and these trees are directly behind the house.
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