Short days, long evenings, low, gray skies, chill, damp rain: typical Fall weather wouldn’t change my routines when I had to go to work, raise kids and putter about with Do-it-yourself projects and maintenance around the house.
Now though I have to find things to do to keep the devil away from my idle hands that complain at the thought of being exposed to Fall weather. My iPad has come to my rescue and I can while away some time comfortably with it by my fireplace, an activity my whole body thanks me for and which keeps that devil at bay.
For the past ten days or so I have been taking this sequence of screen shots of a corner of a park in Budapest that is scanned continuously by a webcam, observing the inexorable march of Fall reflected in the changing color of the trees and as they lose their dense foliage to become bare trunks and branches.
In the beginning, just a few pale reddish patches, still mostly green.
The reds are taking over and the green a paler shade.
On this sunny day, the trees are ablaze with vivid red and golden leaves.
The reds are turning to brown and the leaves are beginning to fall away. Note the workers raking leaves.
Overnight most of the leaves have been stripped from the trees, most of the branches are bare and the grass is littered with fallen leaves.
