A walk for all seasons: autumn

This is the final article in a series, in which I describe and photograph my neighborhood as I walk through it in different seasons.  (Here is the first, here is the second, and here is the third.)

A Walk for All Seasons:  Autumn

For me autumn is a bittersweet season.  I prefer its cooler temperatures to the heat of summer, but am also very sorry to see the days get shorter, particularly as we lose light in the evening.  And though I like limited doses of winter (I find the occasional snowfall charming), I dislike it after only a few weeks of cold weather.  For my autumn walk I chose a path that has plenty of trees and some attractive but non-strenuous topography.  I do not remember having walked along it during the fall season before so I wasn't sure whether I'd get good foliage colors.  Moreover I had trouble choosing the best time to go.  It was cloudy so much this autumn that I took advantage of the first sunny day I could get out.  I may not have caught the colors at their height, but I think I may have caught some subtler transitional shades.

Berries on a tree outside my place.


Looking down Shady Avenue.


A tree just starting to turn, caught by the sun.


A much more colorful tree.


Water droplets on leaves.


Some maple leaves in the process of turning.


Another red tree.


Looking down Wilkins Avenue.


Close-up of fiery red leaves.


This evergreen seemed to be losing needles too.


Green and yellow.


Fiery reds.


Perhaps the brightest of all.


Close-up of berries.


Walking down Murray Hill Avenue.


A large yellow tree.


Fifth Avenue, a major artery of Pittsburgh that is still pleasant to walk down.  I used to walk about a mile along this road a day when I went to Pitt.


A different shade of red.


One last bright red tree.