Walking on an Overcast Day

It was hardly a beckoning day, but the rain did cease, so we headed to the trail for a little walkie.

Sue's prompt for the day was to make a double exposure. With a phone, the blending pretty well has to be done by post processing, and she has such an app.

Just before we got on the trail, we parked by a house which still had a very colourful flowerbed, so Sue stopped to take photos.. With double exposures in mind, I took one of her taking the photos and suggested that she blend mine with hers.

As you can see, it worked pretty well, but in the end, she posted the next one to her group: a blend of the flowers with a leaf found on the trail. I like it a lot, especially with the background textures from the boulder that she lay the leaf on.

This is one of the few photos that I took, looking along the trail. While there wasn't much autumn colour on the trees and bushes, there were quite a few fallen, yellow leaves.

We took a right turn off the trail down to the little bridge and old machine shop where we found an aster growing out of a crack between a retaining wall and the building.

When we walked past the construction of the old mill which is being repurposed into new condos, Sue spotted a rusty old mailbox on the fence. Dropping the mail into the construction zone would be problematic, but it is a pretty blah mailbox for a multi million dollar development.

While we had been on the trail near the bridge, we looked down to the hackberry park.

Later, we went into the park where Sue found water and leaves on part of the bare bedrock. They made for an interesting abstract photo, or at least partially abstract.

We should walk this way every now and then in the next few weeks as more and more autumn colour seeps in.