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Redwings⤴

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Redwings Haiku
Redwings Haiku flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Write a haiku about autumn. Bonus points for illustrating it.

We’ve been waiting for the redwings to arrive at the end of our garden and this weekend they appeared. They are really hard to see in the rowan trees as they blend into the red-brown leaves and red berries, but I got a photo of one yesterday that I’m quite pleased with. Here’s a haiku I wrote as I watched them flit from tree to tree.

Flashing through the trees
Stripping berries as they fly
Redwings have arrived

We’re All Changing⤴

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Mugdock June and October
Mugdock June and October flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

One hemisphere is entering Fall from Summer the other entering Spring from Winter… show us in a photo something that is changing (not necessarily nature).

Yesterday afernoon we found a gap in the rain clouds and walked around Mugdock Loch – a place we visit regularly, noticing as we walked around how many leaves had dropped since the last time we visited. Without knowing what the challenge would be today I stood and took a photo through the trees. So here’s Mugdock Loch in June and October – beautiful in all seasons.

We also saw a red squirrel while we were there, but didn’t get a photo.

The Art of Kilo⤴

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Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says

Write Out recently a workshop by teachers who use a traditional Hawaiian observation practice called Kilo alongside their students.

What are your observation super-powers? Or which ones do you tap into most to support your writing?

Learn more about Kilo

The one I use most is sight, and my camera is my superpowe – I often use it to help me to focus on details of my surroundings. On Saturday, as we were out at a nature reserve watching a heron, I saw how the zoom was catching the colours of this beech tree, with a seed head looking like a butterfly skeleton at the bottom right hand of the image.

Nature is beautiful in every season. Today, as I have a day off, I will head outside in the crisp autumn sun and plant some bulbs. Aloha!

Rain or shine, your city/town/burg is beautiful. Show us the magic⤴

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Today’s TDC says

Celebrate the season wherever you live (Autumn in the northern Hemisphere, Spring in the southern) by getting out in the streets today and photographing the beauty that is the moment.

If you’re housebound, turn your camera to the window. Compose your shot. Make it beautiful.

It’s  very changeable weather here today – one minute bule sky, the next drizzly rain. Here’s my favourite orner of our garden, with Fair Flora (needing repainting!) in front of our ‘orchard corner’. The wee apple tree still has apples on it and the cherry is a lovely colour. The huge fuchsia is called ‘Delta’s Sarah’

283/365 Fair Flora in the autumn garden
283/365 Fair Flora in the autumn garden flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

A random word poem⤴

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Autumn Morning
Autumn Morning flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says:

Use this random word generator and write a haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables) about the first word you generate!

The word I got was drift:

A crisp autumn day
Clouds drift across the skyline
Trees dance in the breeze

I took a photo through my study window, it’s at the top of this post

Today, show your favourite time of the year!⤴

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Today’s TDC says:

Today, show your favorite time of the year! You can draw us a picture, share a photo you’ve taken, or even write us a poem about it.

No Googling though. This is DS106

I love all of the seasons, but the autumn colours are spectacular. Here’s a picture I took at Ross Priory at the weekend

Acer in Autumn colours
Acer in Autumn colours flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Brambles⤴

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I blogged my responses to the TDC thoughout August, and I kind of missed doing that today so here’s this one.  Today’s TDC says:

Today is the first day of meteorological autumn in the northern hemisphere. Make us something autumnal – maybe a picture or a poem.

I don’t have any autumnal photos for this year yet – though we noticed that the trees were starting to drop their leaves when we visited Mugdock earlier this week I didn’t take any pics. But here’s a pic I took yesterday of a fat, juicy, ripe blackberry against a bule sky.

Brambles
Brambles flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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Autumn Kigo⤴

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Today’s TDC asks us to make some autumn kigo. I really wanted to get out my pencils and crayons for this one, but I am trying to compress a day’s work into a morning so that I can enjoy the Reclaim conference this afternoon, so I quickly grabbed one of my recent pics of autumn leaves and used LunaPic to add some filters to it. I then dumped these into powerpoint, screenshot the slide and uploaded it to Flickr. Then I used Alan’s flickr cc attribution helper to attribute it.

Kigo
Kigo flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license