THE LEAVES ARE LEAVING

 

 

Want to buy a post office?    Yep, the  Lorane post office building, the second smallest we've ever seen, can be yours for only $99,000.     We saw the "for sale" sign  and looked it up when we got home.  The ad said the "iconic building" is leased to the USPO for the next four years -- so there's a guaranteed source of income.

The post-office sighting was on one of our recent "covid drives" out in the country,    All of the rest of the  pictures are from  last week, even closer to home.

 

Saturday, November 7

 To be perfectly honest, the picture above is from a week ago yesterday.  That's the Black Walnut Tree at our D and SIL's that I've been watching since April.   We spent part of that Saturday out at the farm visiting and admiring the Fall colors,  a lot of which appeared in last week's post.  It was perfectly beautiful blue-sky Autumn weather. 

But the next day it turned cool and windy.  

 

 

On Monday, Cyndi texted that it was "snowing leaves" at their house. She included a  quick movie from her phone but sadly I can't figure out how to embed a video so it's a screen shot. 

 

Friday, November 13

And this is my picture of the same tree from our latest visit a couple of days ago.  What a difference a week makes.

 

 

Cyndi also texted this picture. How lucky that they had some help with the raking!   That is their grandson (our great), who was visiting them for the day.  You can tell from my latest picture above that there are a lot more leaves to come down.  Enough to keep this little guy busy the next time he spends the day with his grandparents. 

 

 

I didn't help with the raking when we visited on Friday.  But I did collect some of the last of the Autumn  color from the back pasture.  I'm grateful to enjoy the beauty and have none of the work.  Sometimes growing older is not a bad thing at all! 

 

 

While we were there, the sky kept  changing from gray to blue.  So Cyndi and I kept moving our lawn chairs around  from sunny spots to dry ones as we visited.    Beautiful Autumn color is just about gone, but I hope this  rainbow is an omen of a manageable winter and brighter things to come in non-weather related matters.  (Rainbow shot through the car window the same day, as we drove home.) 

 

LINKING this week to the following sharing opportunities.  Thank you to all of the hosts.

MOSAIC MONDAY;  NATURE NOTES;  THROUGH MY LENS;   OUR WORLD ON TUESDAY;  TUESDAY TREASURES; THANKFUL THURSDAY;   SIGNS SIGNS; SKYWATCH FRIDAY; and  FRIDAY  BLISS; 

    

 

Comments

[Gaelyn]

That big tree is magnificent to see changing and loosing it's leaves. And such big piles could be raked and played in.

[Arun Goyal]

Wow ! Wonderful capture of leaves . It would be my pleasure if you share your post related to gardening here at http://jaipurgardening.blogspot.com/2020/11/garden-affair-rose.html

[Wally Jones]

Beautiful autumn color to brighten our rainy Florida day!

Love the leaf collection. Nature's art is the best art.

Thank you for sharing some northwest beauty, Sallie!

[Beatrice]

Forgot to add that the post office would make a great tiny house!

[Beatrice]

Those were some lovely scenes, Sallie, both with and without leaves on the trees. Most of them are down here in Nashua, NH, although I have seen a few hanging on. The weather has been so variable, cold one week and then warming up the next, Today the temp is near 60 degrees!

[Amy Franks]

What a cute building, I'd buy it to live in, that colourful scenery would be nice to look out on.

[riitta k]

A huge tree like that makes a LOT of leaf rain! I have raked the leaves of my three big maples, I know :) But here it snowed a bit last night. It is starting to be real now - the winter! Stay well & safe!

[Gattina]

That's the trouble with trees ! One of the reasons I didn't want a garden anymore ! I see here around an army of gardeners with their machines sucking up the leaves !!

[colleen Looseleaf]

Love the montage and the sky pics. The church I grew up going to was sold as a home and now people live there.

[Rambling woods]

Kids loves leaves...

[junie/Jesh]

Great to have some help in raking leaves:)I love your mushroom capture.
Hi Sallie, I lost track of you in my disjointed long drawn out move from North California to a suburb of Austin Tex! Here, the leaves just started turning. They told me though that it would get down to 30 deg.F Where are you at right now - in Oregon, or Florida? It's a miracle All Seasons survived it with all my escapades this year, so whenever you feel like it, welcome back:)Hope you stay healthy and safe. Jesh

[Michelle Keltner]

What a cute, little leaf helper :) My kids used to pile them up and play in them. Sweet memories.... Thanks for linking up and have a great weekend.

[Peter B.]

Oh my, that's a lot of leaves. Yes, thank goodness for the little helper! What a beautiful little A-frame post office. You live in a beautiful part of the country!

[Debbie]

hehehehehe, yes, when we grow "up", people do not expect us to help with things like raking leaves, isn't that nice?!?! good to have the little ones to help out, what would we do without then?!?!

it is so cold here today, and it has been very windy!! our fall happened very quickly too!!

[Laurie]

Hmmm...owning a post office in Oregon is pretty appealing...thanks for the tip! :) And your great-grandson is adorable. What a wonderful little helper!

[NatureFootstep]

wow. love that old post office. I would not mind having it :)

And yes, the leaves are gone now. It has been "raining leaves" outside my balcony too. :) And now the trees are bare.
Love your shots. :)

[craftygreenpoet]

Lovely series of photos (though for some reason my computer isn't letting me see all of them). The rainbow photo is beautiful

[Stevenson Que]

Dear Sallie!!! That is probably one, if not, the most beautiful post office I have ever seen! It looks very iconic indeed and the surroundings made it even look more beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing this and that cute little leaf raker!

[Mae E Sander]

How excellent that you are able to visit with the relatives. A great-grandson is a real joy!

be well... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

[A ShutterBug Explores]

the little guy is so adorable and precious ~ Great post and photos ~ I too hope the rainbow is an omen for good things to come for all of us ~ Xox

Live each moment with love,

A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)

[somewhereinireland]

I see that you put your great grandson to work raking all those leaves. :) I wonder if anyone will buy that post office. The A-frame building reminds me of a friend's house back in the 70s. We lived in Vermont at the time. I loved the loft that was upstairs in the house. Nice autumn photos and the colours are pretty. Have a wonderful day and stay safe!

[Annie]

Here too, leaves fell in a few days. I have not our little gardener to help us to rake but yours is so cute !

[Dixie]

Beautiful photos, Sallie.
Your great grandson looks very pleased...what a cutie!
Enjoy the week...

[Veronica Lee]

Fabulous fall captures, Sallie! I especially love the sweet lad in the leaves!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

[Bob Bushell]

Autumn, portraited so well. The leaves are falling, love them. I love the post office.

[Lady Fi]

Oh my - what a sweet boy in the leaves! And that tiny post office is adorable.

[Linda Walcroft]

Great post. I posted an even smaller post office today!

[William Kendall]

A neat looking structure.

[tomthebackroadstraveller]

...after our recent strong winds our leaves have left! I often wonder what the future holds for the post office, Trump has destroyed it completely yet.But he still has time. Thanks Sallie for coming to the party, take care.

[Rain Frances]

Hi Sallie :) Here's the link to that tutorial with the hole in the hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yO0VL_Wp8&ab_channel=JonHarris I thought it was from the same artist where I did the 3D letters tutorial, but it's a different one, his name is Jon Harris, and he does lots of 3D and trick art too! Let me know if you do the tutorial and if you post it! I love this kind of art!! :)

[Sharon Wagner]

I need to go to the postoffice. The big, boring kind. Happy fall!

[// Heidrun]

You gave me a smile... the little boy in the colored leaves is amazing. Wonderful captures of autumn and the nature is now especially help in this time. We must go for a walk, we have that all around before our doors.

Stay healthy and well, dear blogfriend.

Happy MosaicMonday

[Stewart M]

The Post Office is very tempting - all this COVID lockdown as made me think really hard about my job - and while I have come to no conclusions, I really dont want to spend too many more years in an office! I doubt I am alone in this!

Hope all is well - Stewart M - Melbourne

[rupam { xhobdo}]

So beautiful photos

[Alan Bates]

I love this time of year. We had some high winds the other day so most of our leaves are on the ground. I haven't raked in years. I just keep mowing with the mulching mower.

[DeniseinVA]

p.s. forgot to type in my web site URL previously. Here it is :)

[DeniseinVA]

That would be a fun place to look around. It would be very interesting to see it turned into a home. I have seen old churches sold and turned into private residences. Most look really beautiful after renovations as they are usually old and many keep as many of the original fixtures and fittings as they can. From your photos it looks like you had a very nice drive. Cute photo of your g-grandson, he’s a darling and what a huge tree, it’s gorgeous but then of course there are the leaves to be taken care of. He is doing his part early :) All great photos and collages. They remind me yet again why I love this time of the year. A beautiful rainbow and a symbol of hope for 2021. Have a great week :)

[Fun60]

The post office is an unusual building. Raking up the leaves is a never ending job at this time of the year. I would be grateful for any help.

[Carol]

You're still enjoying lots of autumn beauty and I'd love to own a post office. It's quite unusal.

[Gillena Cox]

Nostalgia, takes me back to when many of our small post offices here in T&T🇹🇹 were disappearing.
Now the technology, the online buying and a new system holds us connected
Happy Monday Sallie

[Rain Frances]

The nature mosaic is very pretty! It's been raining leaves here too, I can relate!! Oh and the post office is so cute looking!

[Penelope Notes]

The rainbow through the window and the drops are so wonderfully luminescent. I would love to have captured that magical moment. Well done, Sallie!

[Diane]

Yes, the leaves are falling. Our trees seem to all drop at different times so it keeps us busy raking up over several weeks! Hope all is well, Have a good week, Diane

[Dawn aka Spatulas On Parade]

I took a photo of our neighbors tree because it was so gorgeous, two days later it was bare. Amazing how fast these things happen.
Cute little leaf raker.
Dawn aka Spatulas On Parade

[EileeninMD]

Hello Sallie,
The Black Walnut tree is beautiful, love that first photo.
It is nice having a little helper to rake the leaves. Pretty capture of the rainbow. Our trees are bare now, the leaves have all fallen. Take care, enjoy your day! Wishing you a happy new week!

[Susanne]

Enjoyed your snaps, but Cindi's photo of the little cutie may have stole the show.

[Lorrie Orr]

Beautiful photos, Sallie, of a beautiful part of the world. Are you staying on the west coast this winter? You must be enjoying being near to family during these days.

[Pat]

Hi Sallie
Your great-grandson is a cutie! We had 75 mph wind gusts the past few days in our part of Colorado so most of our tree leaves were blown away. I leave some leaves on my flower and shrub beds and on the side of my house as the deer enjoy eating them all winter, They will dig under the snow for them.

[Martha]

Fantastic photos as always Sallie! My favorite, of course, is your great grandson, so cute! I wouldn't mind living in that cute little post office :)

[ellen b.]

Love seeing that little great grand helping with the raking. So so cute!! I'm sure there are lots of leaves under the snow here. :)

[Angie]

Sallie - I adore the color of deciduous trees in the autumn, but I sure do not miss the raking. Yes, getting more "seasoned" has its benefits! I especially like your last collage - the variety of the leaves is stunning. Thanks for bringing this spectacle to everyone at Mosaic Monday!

[Sondra]

OH Im first. So the leaves are coming off as nature intended...the cycle is about to be reborn. Don't you wish we could shed some leaves and grow new ones...Man that must be very cool to start each year with a new coat. The photos are really nice. Hope you have a good week.