This week Amy urges us to find autumn colours. I am enjoying all of yours, but here we are still waiting for them. In Lapland and northern Sweden the colours already have arrived.
I was surprised to learn that a number of these species are called sneezeweed, based on the former use of their dried leaves in making snuff! It was inhaled to cause sneezing that would supposedly rid the body of evil spirits. This year my Heleniums have grown taller than ever – much taller than me. I would say they are about 2 metres – 50cm taller than usual!
I also learned that this genus is named for Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus and Leda. And – now I know why I have so many peacock butterflies in my garden – the larvae of peacock eat Helenium leaves. Well, that’s one of the greatest things with life – you always learn something new.
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize. – George Eliot
But, soon the mist will envelop colourful mornings and evenings. A soft, beautiful, forgiving blanket handed out from Mother Nature.
I loved your artificial lights last week – so many inspiring posts! And some of you didn’t think you would find any photos…but you did! In Sweden we have a saying that goes like: ”He who searches, he will find”. We hope you will join us this week too and show us the colors of autumn through your lens. Be sure to link to Amy’s post and to use the Lens-artists Tag to help us find you.
Next week, Tina will lead the LAPC theme with a “Seen Better Days” challenge: Featuring things that are run-down, dilapidated etc. Please visit her beautiful site at Travels and Trifles.
Until next time – stay well and be kind – and enjoy your autumn colours and the crisp days to come.
Leya 
I love your choices of photos and love them all but the mushrooms and the last photo of the pond are my favorite.
Thank you liking the little colours we have!
Oh I just love the colours of autumn … those trees covered in gold are beautiful! And those delicate fungi … thanks for sharing
Thank you, Julie – such positive and encouraging comments always!
wow a . c., a nice mix on the theme of autumn, I like your pictures very much especially the last picture.
many greetings robert
Thank you, Robert!
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Wonderful images!!!
Glad you liked them!
I love the mushrooms but the last photo took my breath away.
Thank you, Gina. I think those are the most liked ones this time!
Hi Leya
One more from me for this challenge. I adore the view from your kitchen window and your bright bright Helenium, I imagine that view would be so lovely to see when washing dishes (if the window is over the sink as they usually are here). And my favorite is your last photo, of the misty water scene with the two small boats along the shore. So gorgeous.
Here’s my second offering for this week’s LAPC Colors of Autumn:
Best, Babsje
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Just fabulous, Leya! Looks like some gorgeous fall colors so far. Those pink mushrooms are so pretty! You have a beautiful and inspiring garden. Thanks for sharing for Sunday Stills!
Glad you liked it, Terri! And fun when things work!
My favorite photo of yours this week is that one of the mushrooms. Oh, my. I can only imagine what you had to do to get down to that level and take that gorgeous shot!
Well, you have to do it thoroughly…;-D Glad you liked it too!
Beautiful! Little shrooms and autumnal pond are my faves.
😀 Thank you kindly, John.
Your opening shot is a stunner, Ann-Christine. Love your pink mushrooms. 🙂
♥ Appreciate your comments, always, Jane.
Your mushroom and last photos spoke to my heart this week. Gorgeous Ann Christine 😀
You are always very kind, Cee!
Hi Leya
I adore your Autumn Colors selections, especially the tiny mushrooms photos, which has excellent depth of field. Your image of the water with the two boats hugging the left-hand shore and that slightly misty feel is a scene I could walk right into – it has exactly the ambience I love about being near forest waters in the fall.
I’ve updated my own post to link to your lovely contribution here.
Here’s my offering of Autumn Colors, and a Great Blue Heron with a Largemouth Bass:
Best, Babsje
Thank you so much, Babsje!
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Beautiful autumn images, Ann-Christine. I especially like that last shot of the boats on the water.
Thank you, Sue, I like that view as well. It was a place I sometimes stopped when driving to and from my work.
That last image is a delight, and I did like the tiny mushrooms
Sue….everybody seems to like the mushrooms – not a soaking wet Milo…
Aww, poor Milo!
You sit in a beautiful part of the world. That photo of the small mushrooms was very nice, and that beautiful view of the lake too. Great caption too. George Eliot could well have written that line about your photos.
I am grateful every day – and Eliot’s words ring well.
The yellows in the firts shot are stunning, would enjoy cycling along there 😃
Mmm, thanks Jez. I don’t live close enough to cykle there, but I see what you mean! I walk there sometimes, waiting for the sun to hit gold.
Your last image is so surreal. Amazing! Plus, the opener shocked me because this fossilized alligator shows there is much to learn about the world. Who would have guessed alligators were once in Lapland.
Things that have seen better days? Ha! Sounds like me, Ann-Christine. Still high 20s here and no real signs of Autumn but I’m more than happy to admire everyone else’s.
Ah, Jo – now you sound just like me! We have 12 degrees C and heavy rain…to be continued…
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Your little fungi are so pretty. Like you I used to love autumn as much as spring, but now it’s usually raining or damp and grey. Your Heleniums are tall and cheerful, a delightful clump.
Yes, Jude, then we are the same. And now the Heleniums are all gone in the rain. And there is more rain to come – is it the same with you now?
Pretty much this week, I managed to get some spring bulbs planted yesterday, but still lots of work to do in the garden! My Japanese anemones have suffered the same fate as your Heleniums, and they were looking so good too.
😦 The rains will continue here they say…sad about your anemonies.
Nice collection of autumn impressions, I like the mushrooms, the ferns and the shot of the river.
Thank you – yes, there is much to ponder about when autumn arrives.
The yellow trees and the pink fungi are my favourites Ann-Christine!
Glad you liked them, Aletta. I hope for more colours this autumn…but it is very rainy.
Is this your normal rainy season?
Well, I guess we don’t have a rainy season, it rains often all year around!
Okay. We get ours during winter
Ah, maybe that is the fact in many countries?
I am sure there are many
All so gorgeous Ann- Christine..and those mushrooms are very photogenic.
Thank you – and the mushrooms are popular it seems!
Beautiful photos of your garden Ann Christine! I especially liked the mushrooms–so pretty in pink.
Thank you so much, Anne – it seems those little mushrooms are getting popular!
Adorable clicks.
Enjoyed
Happy to share!
Love that golden corridor of trees, Ann-Christine! It’s a little early for fall colors here too. I had to drive a while to find some. 🍁
Mmm, it seems many of us isn’t really there yet! If I went to find colours in Sweden, I would have to go about 1000 kilometers north.
Your garden looks wonderful
Thank you, Alison – I try to make it as insect friendly as possible. I want it to be alive and doing some good for the Earth.
That’s wonderful Leya 🙂
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I love those little mushrooms, the colour is simply divine
😀 The mushrooms rule!
Remarkable images, AC! The image of pink fungi is my favorite. And the last photo is stunningly beautiful!
Thank you, Amy – happy to send you some sweet mushrooms too. They seem to be popular.
It seems autumn is holding out for better days across most of our followers’ geography Ann-Christine. Your images are gorgeous as always but your little mushrooms are so sweet and your closing image along with your comments about it are sheer perfection. Lovely
Thank you so much, Tina! I fear this will be a gloomy autumn if the rains will continue. Some years the colours don’t emerge because of too much rain and wind. I still hope for them to come. Do you have that too – some years there are no colours?
We have very few autumn colors, other than our purple sweetgrass, even in a good year A-C. We stay mostly green all year. I do miss the beautiful northern autumns but not the winters!
Ah, but the sweetgrass is magnificent! And I know you travel to see the colours anyway!
Great post! Fall has not arrived fully here – but all around me in not so far away from me, leaves are turning, etc.
And yet, your post took me down memory lane – of the Aspen turning in good years and the colors they turned to in hard drought years…. the beauty of the burgundy and gold Amaranth stalks of grains in my back yard, that so many asked, ‘what is that flower? It’s beautiful!!” and I had to explain ”It’s a grain – small, but makes awesome pancakes and waffles.” The year I planted some seedling mums, that flourished, but didn’t survive to self-propagate or turn themselves into annual perennials, in the spot where I planted them – sigh –
Fall – a time for looking forward to rest, the blankie of rest and solitude and quite and muffling of the hurry/scurry busyness of the world around me – and yet, also a time for nostalgia, and memories and re-visit of lessons learned, here and there – 😀
What a lovely description of autumn and the feelings it brings. And the memories come back…of autumns gone.A nostalgic remembrance.
I love those pink mushrooms. The ones I see here in the forest are huge and hideous. Certainly not inviting to eat or touch.
Good you liked them – we have lots of hideous ones as well. You have to look closely to find the beauties…!
Gorgeous photos. Autumn is my favorite time of year for all these colors.
Thank you, Angeline! I used to have autumn as the favourite, but not anymore. Nowadays we have mostly rain I am afraid. But hope is there still!
The fungi and creek scene are my favourites Ann-Christine 🙂 🙂
Thank you, Brian – mine too.
Ah, you’re showing us what the next few weeks will bring. Treats in store!
Let’s hope…it’s really wet and rainy right now. Some autumns never come with colours, I hope this is not such a one.
Fingers crossed.
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Thank you for sharing!
You are welcome.