Things to Come by CoreyBlack
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We're getting to that point in the summer where you can faintly feel the coming of fall. After being hot for two months, the weather has moderated in the last week to become quite comfortable. There's now just enough chill in the overnight hours that I find myself waking up at about 4am to close the windows. A few of the green trees on my block have begun to go slightly yellow in spots and the tv and radio are blaring their annual litany of back to school sales.
There's a bitter-sweet quality to the end of summer: now if only it still smelled like those fresh boxes of crayons I always got as a little kid, going back to school.
This photo was made on School Street, west of Lincoln Avenue in the Saint Ben's neighborhood of Chicago on October 23, 2009.
Comments (16)
zoren
great pov!!
auntietk
It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since we were all together in Chicago. !!! Fall is right around the corner, and your image is a perfect reminder. LOVE the pov!!
Meisiekind
Oh wow!!! You did lay on your tummy when you shot this Corey!!! I bet!!! Excellent POV! yeah - we are entering spring and your leaves are starting to fall!! Weird!
durleybeachbum
Corey, you have so perfectly evoked those back-to-school days! With your words and image I immediately smelled and felt how it was 55ish years ago! Marvellous!
MrsLubner
Marvelous pov - really puts me there!
flavia49
superb POV!!
alanwilliams
brilliant angle in this.
sandra46
cool POV and glorious color of the leaves!!!!!!!
goodoleboy
Cool on-your-tummy capture of the first hints of autumn in this keen shot! Your heat may have subsided, but we're under the impact of 90-100+ degree temps here in the Los Angeles basin. And we still have a normally hot September and October to go.
beachzz
Fall is my least favorite season; it means the end of summer. I see signs here too, and I know one day soon, I'll walk outside and get that first feeling of the change. Your foto captures this very well!
whaleman
Great shot Corey! I love everything about it!
jeanebean
Great POV Corey. Makes me yearn for those great cord jackets and wooly sweaters of fall. Here in the deep south it's almost the same season year round. Miss those autumn leaves.
Chipka
We are fast approaching one of my favorite seasons. I tend to think of Autumn as the best time for writing, and I don't know why; I think it's just memories of hot summers during my late teenage years, when it was too hot to write (or do anything else.) Autumn (and Autumnal rains) were always the perfect excuse to whip out the writing pad, come up with something and then type it on a Smith Corona XD6500 electronic typewriter. I wish I still had that thing! My pivotal "first stories" were written on it, as well as that aborted first novel that has been lost for so long that it's beyond hope. Anyway, I love this shot, especially the bug's-eye angle to it all. The sense of scale is deliciously distorted in all of the right ways. This really rocks!
myrrhluz
We are not any where near fall yet, but there have been some tepidly encouraging signs. The highs have been in the low to mid 90s instead of the high 90s. On Thursday there was a north wind that was actually pleasant. Not cool, but pleasant. I love the fall. I loved it when I lived in New Jersey and have even greater reason to love it here. Wonderful image! I love the blanket of leaves some with uplifted stems, that become a yellow blur in the distance. Excellent POV, with the yellow of the leaves on the ground and in the trees dominating the image and bringing welcome thoughts of autumn to the mind.
KatesFriend
Aside from the 'Back to school sales' that assault our precious TV viewing hours I actually consider the transition into fall to be a portent of better things to come. I confess personal bias, most of the 'bad' things that have happened to me have transpired in the summer. Often their impacts relented as September took full swing. So I see this time as something of a release from many burdens. And being Canadian, I do better in the cooler weather. Besides, all the new TV show finally hit the airwaves. That is a very effect perspective you chose here. Bringing the fallen leaves into close up but keeping their former homes imposing in the background. And the wet pavement, ever present in the so called 'ideal' autumn scene.
helanker
OH Yes I remember those crayons very well. The smell too. And the new books and almost all new. It was a special feeling. Excellent shot for these thoughts :-)