Full Foliage Fire

There is something so remarkably beautiful and magnificent about a giant maple tree on Full Foliage Fire that when I see one, I literally stop in my tracks and stare at it in in complete awe. A bolt of electricity shoots right through me, entering my eyes and immediately filling my body. But the jolt is literally focused on my heart, which is set ablaze with passion and emotion; set ablaze like the tree that inspied the fire within me.

Sometimes, like yesterday when I took this photo, I will make my experience auditory by singing out an evocative expletive. When that happens, I literally forget where I am, so lost in the rapture of the moment. That reality is evidenced by the fact that when I saw this tree, which is in the city, where there were several people within earshot, I sung out something like "Sweet Jesus! Look at that beautiful fuckin' tree!"

I don't sing out like that when I'm with someone else. But when I'm by myself, at times that I am hit by beauty such as this, the expression of the incredible impact it has on me is worth the perceived political incorrectness.

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Comments

[Russ Hannagan]

This is why I love New England in the fall. :-)

[Clint Piatelli]

Roger that Russ. Thanx for commenting.