Fall is in the air...

[Smiles]

Just took these photos yesterday a few blocks down the street from where I live and thought you'all might enjoy some non-Thai neighbourhood scenery to break up the views of tropical ocean sunsets, Sunnee back alleys, BKK traffic jams, Buddhist monks and GoGo boys.

These colours are most typical of a Canadian autumn but they don't last long.
Just last night we had a terrific wind storm and most of the golden & red leaves you can see here still stuck to their woody homes are now lying forlorn and wrinkled on the lawns and roads . . . as we speak being raked up by old humpbacked guys in the quiet traditional way, or being blasted helter skelter by that ghastly noisome and hellish instrument known as a leaf-blower ~ stickhandled by some young condo manager who has forgotten the joys of diving into gigantic piles of crunchy leaves as a kid: only a good old fashioned rake can produce those little leafy Everests.

Soon these trees will be bare, the temperature will have plummetted an I'll be wishing (dreaming) about the vast white beach of Hua Hin and environs lying under an umbrella beside the beloved who is studiously cutting his toenails and yapping on about why he thinks it's a good idea that he did not take the opportunity to buy one of these (seemingly) lucrative beach consessions a few years ago.

I hope you can enjoy:

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Cheers ...

[Jetsam]

Hmmm.... beautiful although depressing .... it's that time of the year again that razorblades sell like hotcakes http://images.fok.nl/s/nopompom.gif

[jinks]

Now you know better, Smiles.

This does NOT qualify for the Thai Forum, good try.

Looks like Jinks has been eating his Wheaties...

[Smiles]

" ... Looks like Jinks has been eating his Wheaties ... "
That, and not getting the nuances implied in the concept of "appropriate juxtapositioning".

jinks (bless 'im) is the Ian Paisley of Message Board Moderation.

Cheers ....

[Aunty]

Lovely pics. I always love the fall in North America, the trees are so beautiful. I especially like that smaller red Japanese maple (I think it is) in the foreground of your pics. Very nice.

But of course as you enter fall, we down here enter spring. And I have being enjoying my wisteria! (Pic attached) The fragrance is glorious. It's a funny old world.

http://upload4.postimage.org/1553430/Wisteria03.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/1553430/photo_hosting.html)

I adore North American autumns and springs. I do not think any other country has such distinct seasons and Smile's photos are very nice.

However LMTU is currently residing in Canada and finding the weather a bit gloomy after Pattaya.

He also reports the young men are spectacularly handsome-but annoyingly straight. Perhaps you can offer him advice Smiles ! :drunken:

[Aunty]

I adore North American autumns and springs. I do not think any other country has such distinct seasons and Smile's photos are very nice.

However LMTU is currently residing in Canada and finding the weather a bit gloomy after Pattaya.

He also reports the young men are spectacularly handsome-but annoyingly straight. Perhaps you can offer him advice Smiles ! :drunken:

What's he doing residing in Canada???

[bao-bao]

Beautiful pictures! We get some of that change of colors here in California, but nothing like you do up North, where the first real cold snap turns the hillsides into such magnificent panoramas!

Thank you for posting these :compress:

Spectacular Smiles, I never got to see these tremendous autumn colours before in America, it looks so Indian somehow. I did see a lot of glorious cotton trees in a dry river bed some where in Arizona I think it was. I took a long ride through them, it was quite magical, the ground the trees everything was covered in a sparkling yellow light, my horse was spell bound, could be because they see the yellow spectrum so very well. I love the smell of the blue Autumn sky mixed with the deep sound breath of a horse, especially in those dry climates.

Now i have a yearning to go to America again of all places, and now of all times. Is there a word for that feeling of leaving bits of yourself all over the globe, that you just can never entirely forget, maybe I have been homeless for too long.

Thanks for the gentle reminder, it's a sweet yearning.

"What's he doing residing in Canada???"

from what a friend told me-he has family there and is having an extended visit before he returns to Pattaya to enighten us on nightlife again.

From everything I've seen on the net of Canadian guys-they're handsome as can be. I think Smiles is keeping this secret to himself.

[Smiles]

" ... Is there a word for that feeling of leaving bits of yourself all over the globe, that you just can never entirely forget, maybe I have been homeless for too long. ...."
Sure. Here in the Tundra we call it "Pulling a Sybil". :cyclops:


" ... "What's he doing residing in Canada???" From what a friend told me-he has family there and is having an extended visit before he returns to Pattaya ... "
I believe he was on some sort of holiday in Banff, Alberta. He's a pimp you know, and was checking out the boys in the foothills to see if any of them would like to accompany him back to Pattaya to have a go a Throb's teensy stage. (He gets big bucks for this!).

Cheers ...

Sally in the fields?