Autumn in the Air (In Explore 09/06/2022)

Whistler Mountain and Cutthroat Peak, North Cascades, Washington

After a week of very hot and humid weather, I awoke in the early morning hours yesterday to a sound I had not heard in quite awhile - rain! And though the clouds later cleared off and the sun came out for awhile this morning, the air now suddenly has the unmistakable feeling of autumn. Gone is the languid softness of summer, replaced with the crisp edges that speak of the impending change of seasons. The days are noticeably shorter now too, the endless evenings of summer rapidly fading into the recesses of memory.

And as the calendar seems caught between two seasons, I feel that too. A longing to hang on just a little longer to the warmth and easy joys of summer, yet anticipating the fresh energy that autumn often brings. This photo is from one of my favorite memories of last autumn, taken on my hiking trip to the North Cascades.

Autumn Memories
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mldy86Gzt44
©Sarah Shepherd, 2022

[Note: The music in the link above is a piece that I composed, so please excuse the non-professional presentation of it. It took me a bit to work out a way to share it in a Flickr post. And there are still some technical issues I need to figure out, such as why in the YouTube version it's hard to hear the melody line over the chords.

Anyway, sometimes, I write with music instead of words. Usually instrumental music, although recently I actually wrote a song for the first time, writing the lyrics and then composing a melody for it. And since Flickr has sort of become a place for me to share some of my creative endeavors beyond just photography, I thought I would share the autumn-inspired piano piece I wrote this weekend :-)

Further Note: That is not me playing the piano. I don't have a way to record live from the piano, so after I wrote the music by hand at the piano, I put the score into a music notation program which generates an audio file that I can export. Thus the tone and sound quality are about what one might expect from a computer trying to sound like a piano 😂]

Taken in: United States / Washington / Gilbert (show map)

Taken on: October 9, 2021

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Camera: Canon PowerShot SX740 HS, f/4.5, 1/1000 sec, 12.5mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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