{"id":680,"date":"2011-11-06T20:54:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T04:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2016-01-26T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T08:07:08","slug":"autumn-on-the-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Autumn on the West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our steep hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first year I moved to the West Coast, I noticed that fall was very much a yellow and brown affair. Most of the vibrant reds are constrained to tree-lined suburban streets. I am a lover of autumn and this rusty yellow has grown on me. The most stunning feature of BC’s fall forest is the sheer size of the Bigleaf Maple<\/a> leaves. For example the leaf below that I found outside my office door. It is 36 cm high x 40 cm across, not including the stem.<\/p>\n

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Just look at the size of this leaf – I have a 4-yr-old here for a size reference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve had an exhausting work week, with long days, barely seeing my kids. It’s been hard on all of us. So today we announced we were going on a family hike. We drove to a nearby trail we’d seen but not explored. The kids threw leaves and maple keys off a bridge, and watched them spin into a creek. We climbed a very steep hill that zigged and zagged, covered in leaves that continued to flutter around us. We laughed and the kids squealed.<\/p>\n

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“Leaf-throwing party,” as described by my 2-year-old<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My eyes ate up nature’s patterns. God is so generous in the woods, offering up intricately patterned leaves, fantastical villages of psychedelic mushrooms, verdant mossy trees and the soothing sound of a flowing brook.<\/p>\n

For years I have loved the design of decaying leaves. Like Nava Lubelski<\/a>‘s artwork featured by the Artsy Forager’s blogpost<\/a>, I love the intricacy, the filigree, of these designs. I’ve seen a similar thing done by one of the artists on the Vancouver culture crawl, where she sews in the holes of fallen leaves.<\/p>\n

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October in BC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nature stirs something in us. It sets us free to be ourselves, to act like children, to breathe at a healthy pace, and to forget about the mundane.<\/p>\n

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Nature stirs something in us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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