Can you believe we’re at the end of the challenge? Where did the time go? Is winter really just around the corner? *sigh*

I’d like to thank our older full hosts for putting this challenge together ~ great job, ladies. And to all of the participants, thank you for sharing your lives and your skill each week. I tip my hat to all of you, y’all are incredibly talented.

So much has changed since we first began the Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge seven weeks ago. Temps were hovering in the high 90s, the trees were lush with green leaves and my family and I were settling in to our new lives in Missouri…

I explored the Conservation Center with my kids, wandered my neighborhood and pulled over on the side of the road to capture pictures for this challenge. For the finale, I am resubmitting some of my favorite shots and introducing others, I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoyed taking them.

Green…

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Green Apple

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Green Pods

Yellow…

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Yellow Flowers

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Yellow Leaves

Orange…

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Orange Flower

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Orange Leaves

Red…

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Red Leaf

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Red Leaves

Purple…

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Purple Flower

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Purple Flower

Brown…

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Brown Flowers

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Brown Fungus

White…

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Cracked Egg

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Goldenrod

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Spoon Full of Sugar

About the Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge

Shades of Autumn Photo ChallengeThe Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge is hosted by Alicia at Project Alicia, Kristi at live and love…out loud and Rebecca at Bumbles & Light. There’s also a flickr group and a Pinterest board for those of you who are looking for some photographic inspiration…

The themes are:

OCTOBER
7 ~ Green
14 ~ Yellow
21 ~ Orange
28 ~ Red

NOVEMBER
4 ~ Purple
11 ~ Brown
18 ~ White
25 ~ Shades of Autumn Finale

To participate:

Share your favorite images inspired by the Autumn shade of the week each Friday. Your image must contain at least 50% of the color of the week; the autumn shade should be the main focus of your photograph. Selective coloring is discouraged.

Images can either be linked through your Shades of Autumn blog post or to a picture on Flickr (please do not just link to your blog’s homepage). You can also add your pictures to the Shades of Autumn Flickr Group.

Don’t forget to hit the linky, it’ll be open from 12:01 AM Friday to 11:59 PM Wednesday, and grab the badge.