Autumn leaves, clinging on, it's how I feel!

pete43lost_at_sea
pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1
In the black forest Germany, the leaves are a stunning range of greens, yellows and Gold and orange.
The snow and winds have not come yet, they still cling to the trees. It's so beautiful.

Then by the main river at Frankfurt, different trees, most are bare now. A few of these leaves on these equally beautiful trees hangon still.

I see so much beauty here in nature and the people. It makes clinging to life like an Autumn leaf a joy.

As I gaze at the trees and leaves I ask myself how many more autums ?
For the forest it's countless , for me its a mystery I leave to God.

Hugs,
Pete
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  • joemetz
    joemetz Member Posts: 493
    #2
    Amen Pete
    Thank you for your post Pete.

    Do you have a web or blog site or facebook site where you post those photos?

    I would love to see what you see.

    Prayers going out for you brother.

    may you have many more times! Many more.
  • mukamom
    mukamom Member Posts: 402
    #3
    joemetz said:

    Amen Pete
    Thank you for your post Pete.

    Do you have a web or blog site or facebook site where you post those photos?

    I would love to see what you see.

    Prayers going out for you brother.

    may you have many more times! Many more.

    Our leaves here in the US
    are almost gone. A couple of weeks ago, they were in all of their glory. Reds, yellow, oranges..so beautiful. We drove up to Mt. Cheaha and it was stunning. I found myself wondering if this one was the last Robert would see....

    Hugs to you Pete

    Angela
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #4
    mukamom said:

    Our leaves here in the US
    are almost gone. A couple of weeks ago, they were in all of their glory. Reds, yellow, oranges..so beautiful. We drove up to Mt. Cheaha and it was stunning. I found myself wondering if this one was the last Robert would see....

    Hugs to you Pete

    Angela

    snow snow
    we are buried.....getting out the shovels and the toques and the boots and the mitts, the parkas and the scarves, Get a new furnace filter, urn up the heat....burrrrr

    hi Pete.....leaves are good....haha

    mags
  • JayhawkDan
    JayhawkDan Member Posts: 205
    #5
    Beautiful, Pete
    That was awesome! Being you're from Australia, I'm curious if the Fall Foliage is something you don't see a lot? We had a very dry year here in Northeast Kansas so we thought it would be a bad "color" year for the foliage but it ended up being spectacular. And we went to the Colorado Rockies in late September and the colors were fantastic. Glad you're able to enjoy the beauty, and thanks for sharing with us. Dan
  • cinreag
    cinreag Member Posts: 154
    #6
    Fall colors...
    I love nature and the beautiful colors in the fall are the icing on the cake!!!

    I was lucky enough to see the beautiful fall leaves in the Smoky Mountains this year. It was beautiful.
  • lauragb
    lauragb Member Posts: 370 Member
    #7
    What a beautiful image!
    What a beautiful image! Fall is beautiful where I live and I always enjoy the tapestry of color that is the hills. Last year, while on leave from work, I walked in the woods during the winter and fell in love with the bare trees, their individuality apparent. Pete, go find a bare tree with roots exposed and stand on those roots to ground you, connect you through this journey. Just an image I'm sending you. We are so blessed for what trees bring us. Light and love to you.
    Laura
  • danker
    danker Member Posts: 1,276 Member
    #8
    Pete
    I think we all wonder how many more Autumns we will have! Lets hope it's lots !!!
  • Kathleen808
    Kathleen808 Member Posts: 2,342 Member
    #9
    Pete
    Pete,
    Thank for sharing that beautiful description.

    I have to ask you my friend, is your family with you in Germany? How long will you be there. I hope you are not lonely there. Sending you warm aloha.

    Aloha,
    Kathleen
  • Joy1216
    Joy1216 Member Posts: 290 Member
    #10
    mukamom said:

    Our leaves here in the US
    are almost gone. A couple of weeks ago, they were in all of their glory. Reds, yellow, oranges..so beautiful. We drove up to Mt. Cheaha and it was stunning. I found myself wondering if this one was the last Robert would see....

    Hugs to you Pete

    Angela

    Used to live in B'ham
    I used to live in Birmingham and at one time worked in Anniston, so I know where Cheaha is. It's really pretty up there.
    Joy
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #11
    thanks dear friends
    to share whats in our heart is the best best medicine, at for me at this time.

    I simply pray that our lives are constantly enriched either, by stunning autumn leaves, by new pairs of shoes, the hugs of our friends or the sparkle of candle light in a lovers eyes.

    in its essence each day is a brave and exciting journey for me. tomorrow I leave tomorrow.

    hugs,
    Pete

    ps the early morning twilight fog shrouds the black forest in mystery, it dissapates as the sun riss. it seemed to cling in the mountsin valleys like the autumn leaves. I saw this spectacular dawn display and had a few tears as i did the 2 hour drive from my fiends place to the clinic for my 8am hyperthermia.
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #12
    Kathleen808 said:

    Pete
    Pete,
    Thank for sharing that beautiful description.

    I have to ask you my friend, is your family with you in Germany? How long will you be there. I hope you are not lonely there. Sending you warm aloha.

    Aloha,
    Kathleen

    thanks kathleen
    the loneliness is profound, but i have myself and god to love and lots to be grateful for.
    how long ? I am optimistic so i say I may come home for school holidays and xmas. If the peace and beauty of the black forest and the treatments here are a miraclous cure then I am doubltful i would return to me old life.

    hugs,
    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #13
    lauragb said:

    What a beautiful image!
    What a beautiful image! Fall is beautiful where I live and I always enjoy the tapestry of color that is the hills. Last year, while on leave from work, I walked in the woods during the winter and fell in love with the bare trees, their individuality apparent. Pete, go find a bare tree with roots exposed and stand on those roots to ground you, connect you through this journey. Just an image I'm sending you. We are so blessed for what trees bring us. Light and love to you.
    Laura

    thanks laura
    I will find s bare tree. We are like the trees of the black forest, individuals with lots of black experiences but when view as a community noble and beautiful beyond measure.

    hugs,
    Pete

    ps i will feel the roots even through nerve damaged feet. love and light to you also laura.
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #14
    danker said:

    Pete
    I think we all wonder how many more Autumns we will have! Lets hope it's lots !!!

    thanks danker
    I pray its lots also, but to be honest this ones enough. how much beauty can one soul bare.
    hugs,
    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #15
    cinreag said:

    Fall colors...
    I love nature and the beautiful colors in the fall are the icing on the cake!!!

    I was lucky enough to see the beautiful fall leaves in the Smoky Mountains this year. It was beautiful.

    thanks cinreag
    ahh the icing on the cake, its like the icing on the blackforest cakes.
    simply unforgetsble, thanks for reminding me tht beauty is everywhere, we just have to be aware and looking for it.

    hugs,
    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #16
    Joy1216 said:

    Used to live in B'ham
    I used to live in Birmingham and at one time worked in Anniston, so I know where Cheaha is. It's really pretty up there.
    Joy

    thanks joy
    I hope you get to see the beauty of Cheata real soon,
    hugs,
    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #17
    JayhawkDan said:

    Beautiful, Pete
    That was awesome! Being you're from Australia, I'm curious if the Fall Foliage is something you don't see a lot? We had a very dry year here in Northeast Kansas so we thought it would be a bad "color" year for the foliage but it ended up being spectacular. And we went to the Colorado Rockies in late September and the colors were fantastic. Glad you're able to enjoy the beauty, and thanks for sharing with us. Dan

    thanks dan
    the colorado rockies, now thats a place i would love to see. maybe their are no "bad color year" , expectations have a way of devaluing our presnt experience.

    as an aussie in sydney i have never seen the forest effect like here in the black forest.
    hugs,
    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #18
    maglets said:

    snow snow
    we are buried.....getting out the shovels and the toques and the boots and the mitts, the parkas and the scarves, Get a new furnace filter, urn up the heat....burrrrr

    hi Pete.....leaves are good....haha

    mags

    oh mags
    turn up the heat and look at the flickering flame, now thats good for the soul and stops you freezing your but off.

    leaves and fires are great. i guess just not in the hot summer when its dry during s bushfire ha ha.

    hugs,
    Pete

    ps soon I will be cross country skiing, its supposed to snow tomorrow.
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #19
    mukamom said:

    Our leaves here in the US
    are almost gone. A couple of weeks ago, they were in all of their glory. Reds, yellow, oranges..so beautiful. We drove up to Mt. Cheaha and it was stunning. I found myself wondering if this one was the last Robert would see....

    Hugs to you Pete

    Angela

    oh angela, i hope not
    I was wondering the same thing .....

    natural beauty provokes this repsonse, which ultimately i am grateful for.

    but all we do is live today well, and tomorrow will have to sort itself out. It always does, alas weather we are here or not this beautiful big ball keeps spinning and the autum leave fall from Cheaha to Hallwangem to Sydney.

    hugs,
    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #20
    joemetz said:

    Amen Pete
    Thank you for your post Pete.

    Do you have a web or blog site or facebook site where you post those photos?

    I would love to see what you see.

    Prayers going out for you brother.

    may you have many more times! Many more.

    thanks joe
    hi joe,

    I used to put up my underwater photos at the site below, now i have to get back into it.

    http://www.petertrayhurn.com/Other/2010-April-Christmas-and-Cocos/DSC1099/1098962641_SnidZ-XL.jpg

    many more for us all, thanks a love1y prayer my friend.

    hugs,
    Pete
  • Minnesotagirl
    Minnesotagirl Member Posts: 141
    #21
    pete43lost_at_sea said:

    thanks dear friends
    to share whats in our heart is the best best medicine, at for me at this time.

    I simply pray that our lives are constantly enriched either, by stunning autumn leaves, by new pairs of shoes, the hugs of our friends or the sparkle of candle light in a lovers eyes.

    in its essence each day is a brave and exciting journey for me. tomorrow I leave tomorrow.

    hugs,
    Pete

    ps the early morning twilight fog shrouds the black forest in mystery, it dissapates as the sun riss. it seemed to cling in the mountsin valleys like the autumn leaves. I saw this spectacular dawn display and had a few tears as i did the 2 hour drive from my fiends place to the clinic for my 8am hyperthermia.

    Praying for you Pete
    Good Morning Pete,

    Just wanted to send a short note and let you know I pray for you every day, I speak your name to the Lord above as I walk. I also pray for many others here by name. I pray for healing, grace and mercy. Continue to believe Pete and keep your chin up my friend.

    "Minnesotabgirl

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