Fall is beautiful

II love fall.... I spotted these today while out for a walk....
I’d love to see “fall” in all its facets from you guys, too.... 

Very nice, Steffi,

I spotted this 🌳

That’s a great idea.

@everyone:
Please upload only your own photos. 

Of course, only your own—otherwise it’s no fun....

Right outside my window.... the blackbirds have left some on the branches 

Yesterday in my garden: 

For me, fall starts to set in with the first autumn crocuses 

Well, my strawberries just don’t seem to know that—they’re still growing. 

Wow, what beautiful pictures. Thank you all. I’ll take some photos too in the next few days. Anja, the strawberries and raspberries are still growing vigorously here as well.

Your fall photos are really beautiful!
I’ve brought a little fall into my home. 😊

Our hedge now in October. Unfortunately, every year it only grows on the side facing the street

I think this is enchanting. 

Yes, Marita, spiderwebs look wonderful when they’re covered in rain or dew, too.

The cherry laurel in our garden is just as colorful as Petra’s. I’m thrilled by it every year. I took some photos in our garden today.




The fig tree is starting to change color, too.



Our strawberries are turning colorful, yet they’re still bearing fruit.

So many great pictures—now I want to share mine too. This is the view from my desk (that’s why it always takes me so long—I spend too much time looking out the window 🤣).

An autumn drive — it was beautiful, this riot of colors in nature; I had my camera in my hands the whole time.

Best regards, Inge

You’re sharing some really beautiful photos.
I’ve harvested my pumpkins and am putting up fall decorations inside and outside the house today.
But for me, fall also means my fall cards.

Inge, the leaves are already such beautiful colors. Yes, you can really tell by looking at the forests every day.

Hansi, your pumpkins are gorgeous. I only have crocheted ones. I really like your pictures, too. Is the mushroom embroidered? And what materials did you combine to make it? 

Such beautiful pictures😍
Unfortunately, it doesn’t get quite that colorful where we live. There are a lot of oak trees here that stay green for a long time and then turn brown all at once. 

Such wonderful pictures, where you’ve captured fall in all its facets. Thanks for sharing.

Monika, your garden is wonderfully colorful. I like that.
Veronika, what a beautiful view you have. Fall right outside your door.
Inge, you took great shots during your fall outing. I love all the colors.
Petra, your crocheted pumpkins are a real eye-catcher. Halloween can come now.
johannsi, your fall cards turned out so pretty. I’ve done embroidered cards like that before too; unfortunately, I don’t have time to do everything.

I love fall with all its bright colors. Time to collect leaves.
Somewhere in a book I still have pressed fall leaves from Norway.

The mouse and the mushrooms are embroidered using thread art—that’s my main hobby.
To decorate, I cut out motifs like trees and letters.
The picture of the hedgehog is a printed 3D image.
Your pumpkins are beautifully crocheted—I need to go find mine.

Hansi—is that free-style embroidery like I do, or do you buy patterns?

I’m not familiar with 3D printing yet either. In any case, I really like your hedgehog picture. It’s so varied. 

Wow, you have some beautiful artwork to admire here. I’m amazed!

Petra, do you do your embroidery freehand? How do you manage to make it so even? Amazing!

Johansi, your embroidered pictures are truly something special. I really love them. I’ve never seen anything like this before. And the pumpkins—they’re a dream! They’re making me hungry just looking at them.

Inge, every time we go for a drive these days, I can’t help but admire the scenery. It’s just so beautiful to take in this spectrum of colors.

I wish you all a wonderful, colorful weekend!

I’ve created a separate thread for the “string art” topic so it doesn’t get lost here among the fall pictures.

String art 

I spotted this flower yesterday.

Best regards, Marita 

Yesterday in the garden....

I’m already waiting for the wild grapevine to change color—it’s still pretty green.... but then our house will really shine.
Everyone always says we should “get rid of it” because it damages the facade. I think the grapevine is totally fine; ivy is much worse. Its roots get into every little crack, no matter how small, and eventually break it open. The wild grapevine, on the other hand, only has clinging roots—okay, if you want to paint over it someday, you’ll have to sand it down pretty well to get a “nice” surface....
In late summer, it’s absolutely buzzing and humming with activity. This grapevine bears flowers and fruit—visually very inconspicuous, but very important for the insects. So, the grapevine stays!

That’s right, Steffi! And by now, we’ve also learned that green facades are good for the urban climate because, among other things
, they insulate the walls 


Normally, the gable is covered in vines too, but this year the vines had to make way for the new roof, including the gable.... 

Oh, there are some beautiful fall photos to see here. If you have an eye for it, you can discover so many beautiful things.

Yesterday I took a stroll through my garden and tried to capture a little bit of that fall atmosphere. Here you go—feel free to take a look.

Warm regards from Ina

What I love most about fall are the grasses.


The leaves on the trees are changing color very slowly here. But the evening sun is already making the red leaves of my blood plum tree glow.


There are still flowers, too—like this beautiful rose blossom here. It’s a very intense reddish-pink.


Or this perennial—I can’t quite remember its name right now. It’s still full of delicate flowers that insects love to visit.


Plenty of fresh dill has grown among the newly planted hedge trees. The seeds came from the compost left over from planting. I have to harvest it before the first frost.


The lawn is increasingly adorned with colorful leaves from the fruit trees.


Otherwise, nature is changing colors—or losing them:




That’s it. A little glimpse into my autumn garden. I hope you continue to enjoy this golden October.

***And by now, we’ve also learned that green facades are good for the urban climate,***

It sure took long enough! We used to own an apartment building in downtown Cologne. Narrow streets, parked cars, and five-story buildings everywhere—all gray on gray. So we wanted to plant greenery on the building; that was back in the ’90s. What a battle with the city—countless applications and permits costing several hundred marks, a “special zoning plan,” since we had to “build” in an urban area (i.e., remove two sidewalk slabs right next to the building to make a planting hole)....
My husband always says he would have given up after just a few weeks, but I’m more than thick-skinned, so eventually we finally got around to planting it.
We’d decided on wisteria, but since the house had greenish clinker bricks at the base, we chose a variety with white flowers. It grew quickly, looked absolutely fantastic, and soon the house was known on the street simply as the “Jungle House.” Whenever I pass through the area today, I notice that quite a few neighbors have followed suit—it’s really lovely; back then, we were the only ones.

Wow, what beautiful glimpses into your garden, Ina.
And your house, Steffi, looks really lovely. I really love houses covered in vines like that, too.

The first picture turned into an autumnal wall hanging; the mushrooms were an attempt to digitize a whole group of something—it was right at the very beginning, when I first started digitizing.
The pumpkin house is a colorwork piece—one of my first works of this kind—and the little hedgehog is also from my early days. I think there are plenty of motifs for fall, too; I really need to get back to it :-)

Love, Inge



A few of my embroidered impressions of fall

Since it gets dark earlier again in the fall, you can catch beautiful moments in the dark more often :) 


It’s almost got a spooky, Halloween-like vibe, doesn’t it? :) I thought the sky was gorgeous last night! (In real life, of course, it’s even a little more beautiful than you can capture in photos.)

You’ve already taken some great photos.

  
Looks like someone missed the flight. The other starlings have already flown away.



These pears have already been harvested.





          

The harvest is in full swing here in the Altes Land.

That was my fall “today”...

Your photos are simply beautiful—you’ve already captured such amazing fall colors so well...
and the apple harvest 🥰 I can still remember the scent from when we used to harvest apples “back in the day.” 

Hi there,

my dear friends! The gorgeous fall photos you’ve captured are absolutely amazing.

I spotted this overgrown house wall on my way to work. It glows so beautifully in the sun.

Just discovered this while walking around the garden

just went across the street again to do some shopping, needed one more little thing, and then I saw it glowing so beautifully

Best, Inge