And with it, I’m coming out of hibernation. I’ve been doing a good deal of event photographs lately and had the great fortune to photograph some amazing performances. But, my art shots have been hiding. I felt it happen as the light started leaving this fall. I’ve had a lot of ideas floating around in my head, but just no real urge to capture them quite yet. I caught these few shots today and thought I’d share. I love these branches, and know that they’ll keep flowering and soon I’ll be drinking glasses of wine in their shade. In May they drop their petals and the back yard is carpeted in white.

Fall in in Pacific NW is wet. I’m sure this doesn’t surprise you. What may surprise you though, is that summers are incredibly dry. We’ll go months without rain. So when the rains come again in October they always catch me a bit unaware at first. But then today as I was driving home from work, my windshield wiper dragging leaves and debris back and forth, I started to feel like this was home. I’ve spent fall in a lot of different areas in the last 10 years, but fall always feels just like this no matter where I am.