The magnolia fruits are turning this amazing pink right now and I had to take some photos. They just amaze me. You can begin to see the red berries forming, they will get bigger as the pink fades and the soft fuzziness turns brown then turns harder and more pod-like.

Here they are all over the tree. It feels like a dense jungle under the canopy. Every part of this species' life cycle is beautiful to me.



I took a walk this morning and noticed the leaves were beginning to physically fall in front of me. Wow it's that time of year already. Then as I approached I noticed them falling all around me lit by the sun, little hackberry leaves golden and swirling all about me. It felt like tiny angels of light were enveloping me, nurturing me.

Ah, I just love autumn.