While western New York is getting pummeled with more than 7 feet of snow in some areas, that’s not happening at my house, and I’m just a few miles away! I have maybe an inch or two of snow at my house if I am lucky. Even though the pictures coming out of our great Lake Effect storm are amazing and beautiful, I want to show some pictures I took last week from Late Autumn, and just how different the colors are when nearing Winter.

I want to give a shout out to my mother who is truly the crafty one in the family! She made this cute little turkey set for me:

Thanks to my mom for making this cute wooden turkey set that can be inserted into a pumpkin.

Late Autumn brings out even deeper colors in trees. I never noticed this tree any other time, and I walk that same route almost every day:

I love the contrast on what I believe is a birch tree. It was snowing big snowflakes that day I took my “lunch break” walk.

My last picture is of the Buffalo Lighthouse. I love taking pictures of this lighthouse. This isn’t the greatest picture, but I tried to get one so you could actually see the snowflakes coming down around it. I have several different pictures of this lighthouse at different times of the year.

The Buffalo Lighthouse. My favorite subject on my “lunch break” workout every day.