Fruit

Green apples at the grocery store today.

Layers

Green apples stacked for the taking at Stew Leoonard's.

The weahter here in New England has been nothing short of depressing for months now. A long raw winter eventually dissolved into a late, cold wet spring that went on until August, when we had about 10 days of sweltering heat and humidity. After that, we were back to chilly rain. The one good thing is that, somehow, all this has added up to spectacular fall colors. Every time I think we've passed peak, I walk outside on the rare sunny day and see something like this outside my back door. This WAS the blue of the sky this morning, and the yellows and oranges were just that bright. Posterize adds just a bit of punch, but the colors were so brilliant and so primary that not too much is changed.

Enough already with the rain! More rain today and more rain for the next week or more...summer is short enough here, and we've lost another month of it to low clouds, raw temperatures and RAIN. On the pro side, everything is green. We might be living in Ireland or a very chilly rain forest. The Charcoal filter added a touch of whimsy to these rain-dotted leaves.

Isolating the sign and converting the rest of the photo to black & white emphasizes the bleakness of the snowy woods and the hopeful message imparted by the sign.

The Sumi-E filter gave it a certain exuberance of color and line.