One of the neatest things about the changing of the seasons is the strange beauty of the leaves falling off the trees, the grass changing colors, and the flowers and plants losing their luster and expelling all their seeds to continue the circle of life. It's odd at the same time because all this beauty comes essentially from the death of everything. Strange as that may seem, it starts to bring a pretty picture to all those trees void of leaves or fields of corn plowed down. Soon, all those empty fields and barren branches will be filled with blankets of white snow and the only color that we will see will be white.
This is a picture of a milkweed expending it's seeds inside that I took at the prairie site here in town. Since there wasn't a lot of color to balance it out, I wanted to transfer it to a black and white setting and I think it really brought out the texture of the seeds. Interestingly enough, with the windy weather we've had the past few days, not long after this picture was snapped, the wind picked up and blew most of those seeds away. Truly a lucky shot which, I have discovered, have been one of many that have fallen into my lap these past couple of months.
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