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Leaving

On an orchard in Yucaipa there was little fruit but still plenty of leaves.

Hanging from the tree

Merry Christmas... or Boxing Day now. These are a few shots from our festivities yesterday.

Night flowers

Downtown L.A. street light illuminating these flowers.

11 Dec 08

Tannenbaum

Within minutes of my fiancée finishing decorating the tree, I was at it with the camera. (All were taken hand-held, so it was a matter of a steady hand in the low light.)

Up in arms

Some people take pictures of people on Thanksgiving. Some people take pictures of the turkey. I took these shots of the arm of a chair in the host's living room. I presume it was antique.

It's real

As usual I'm not sure as to the name of this type of tree, but some of its leaves seem almost too smooth to be real, but they are.

Fleur

Unidentified bright fuschia-colored flower and a tiny blue visitor.

Autumn

The five-pointed leaves of an American Sweetgum tree showing their autumn colors. (Not a lot of trees in Southern California have leaves that change in this manner.)

(So, yes, these are shots of the same trees as the last post, just focused on the leaves more than the fruit.)

19 Nov 08

These spiky pods are the fruit of American Sweetgum trees (which, apparently, are known as "gumballs," amongst other nicknames), as they look with the leaves showing their autumn colors and the pods start to reach... fruition.

(As seen in this post from back in January, within a few months they'll be hollowed.)