orange pop

Autumn flowering Crocus speciosus.
So beautiful, so full of life, so sasha.

through old glass

Turning leaves viewed through circa 1915 vintage window glass.

backyard

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn." ~ Elizabeth Lawrence

saffron beauty

Autumn flowering Crocus speciosus. I planted these bulbs 10 years ago. And each year I am enchanted. So beautiful, so sasha.

"[C. speciosus] is infinitely worth growing, all its ways are seemly, all its forms lovely." - Louise Beebe Wilder, Adventures with Hardy Bulbs (1936)

"... the first autumnal [crocus] to flower, and ... always startling when it comes bubbling through the earth, innocent of leaves, usually after a warm rain in late September." -LBW