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Backlit maple leaves

More maple leaves! These are from last month – they’ve all since fallen to the ground. I am way too lazy to rake them up, but when dad came to visit he raked them to the curb and the vacuum shredder truck took them away to become compost.

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Orange maple leaves

More leaves! I think I waited too long for the Japanese maple leaves in the yard, but maybe I’ll take a couple of shots of them on the ground before raking them up.

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Obligatory maple leaf photo

Yay, a photo! There are a couple of trees with these extra-garish leaves on our usual walk through Rock Creek Park. Oliver isn’t very interested in stopping to look at them unless there are some hanging low enough to grab and eat.

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Bubbling leaves

Another photo from an outing in the yard with the kid and the K20D. It’s quite a challenge to get a photo taken before he grabs the camera or a handful of leaves!

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Red stars

It turns out it’s possible to walk around the yard taking photos with a baby strapped on with one of these. My lens did get groped when I wasn’t paying attention…