Photo of the Day - September 2023

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Welcome to Photo of the Day
🍃 September 2023 (Fall Season) 🍂
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First and foremost. Thank you for being here. Welcome! 🙏

I hope this thread finds you well and healthy. Say hello to warm days filled with sunshine and cool nights when open windows bring in fresh air for restful sleeping. New energy comes with the shorter days as there is less daylight for squandering. Perhaps it’s nature’s way of making us use every hour of precious daylight! Please allow me to introduce first the month of September.

It’s here! I know we shouldn’t wish the year away, but… 🍂 Autumn! I can already feel my energy levels rising, and the 🌏 world just feels more ‘right’.

Sometimes I wonder every single day where is this year going. Where did this year go? Wait a minute... It’s September already? The month of September ahhhhh. September is here. My favorite month of the year signals the end of the summer months, those carefree days making the most of longer evenings, but, fret not, all is not lost. September allows everyone to shed their summer skin, and maybe some summer sins, and begin setting new goals for the last few months of the year. With January creeping around the corner, September is the best month to remember, and scurry to complete, those New Year’s resolutions.

September is a wonderful midpoint between the end of summer and the start of Autumn that eases us into the colder months. I love the feeling of a beautiful summer day, yet with this unexplainable feeling autumn is not far behind. Most people talk about ‘spring fever’ but looking back, some of my most wonderful relationships started in the Fall and I'm not sure if it has anything to do with that feeling of Indian Summer or just a coincidence. Either way, I look forward to it every year.

Happy sharing and best wishes to all of you!

Thank you,
@TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️

*Cross Reference Thread (Archived): Photo of the Day - 🍁 September 2022 🍂

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-of-the-day-september-2022.2356524/

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[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

To start the month of September right. The photo below is another one of a kind that I will remember rest of my life. Recently, I just got back from my 3rd vacation trip this year which was in Chicago. Chicago was a very special trip for me. I had a blast! The City of Chicago has so much to offer. The diversity and culture is all over the place. You can feel it and it follows you everywhere. The city itself is very lively and historic. There was a deep connection I made with the City. The culture, food, people, downtown area and so much more. In addition, I will never look at the pizza the same unless it's from the City of Chicago.

While being in Chicago, I didn't sleep for 4 days. On August 28, 2023, Monday morning, It suddenly dawned on me I had to come back to reality and go back home. Before that, I had no idea what day or date it was. Living the precious moments freely and openly. Mourning of sadness after leaving the Windy City kicked in real quick, I tried my hardest not to cry but I did. I just couldn’t hold it in. Just looking back and counting the gracious blessings, being grateful and thankful for is what I had thought of. Chicago took my heart and I left my small presence there unknowingly. 🙌🏻

Diverse. Innovative. World Class.

🔎 Point of View: Chicago Skyline (West)​

Key Facts: Settled: c. 1780; 243 years ago - Incorporated (town) - August 12, 1833; 190 years ago - Incorporated (city) March 4, 1837; 186 years ago - Founded by - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Area (City) 234.53 sq mi (607.44 km2) - Land: 227.73 sq mi (589.82 km2) - Water: 227.73 sq mi (589.82 km2) - Water: 6.80 sq mi (17.62 km2) - Elevation (mean) 597.18 ft (182.02 m) - Highest Elevation: 672 ft (205 m) near Blue Island - Lowest Elevation: 578 ft (176 m) at Lake Michigan - Total Population: 2,746,388 - Rank: 5th in North America - 3rd in United States - 1st in Illinois - Demonym: Chicagoan. City of Chicago - The Windy City 🪽​

"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them." - Mark Twain, 1883

Chicago was only 46 years old when Mark Twain wrote those words, but it had already grown more than 100-fold, from a small trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River into one of the nation’s largest cities, and it wasn’t about to stop. Over the next 20 years, it would quadruple in population, amazing the rest of the world with its ability to repeatedly reinvent itself.

And it still hasn’t stopped.

Chicago continues to be a place that many people from diverse backgrounds call home. Before it was a city, it was the home to numerous indigenous peoples, a legacy that continues to frame the relationship with the city, the land, and the environment.

Today, Chicago has become a global city, a thriving center of international trade and commerce, and a place where people of every nationality and background come to pursue the American dream.

🏙️ Chicago When You Go You Know
🥇 Chicago Voted Best Big City in the U.S. - Chicago Choose Chicago
🌭 Chi-Town - Chicago - 🌬️ The Windy City 🪽

Copyright© 1837 - 2023 - City of Chicago - The Windy City​

 

[dhershberger]

Your's truly hiking in the Himalayas. Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. October, 2022.
Edit: Clearly, this photo wasn't taken by me, but by my guide with my iPhone.

 

[stillcrazyman]

Catbird

 

[Apple_Glen_UK]

 

[xodh]

Burton Cliff, Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England

UNESCO World heritage site, as part of the Jurassic Coast.

 

[JapanApple]

This is a re-post from August. Since someone decided to make a new month. Sorry about that

 

[dimme]

Crystal Springs-230729-12.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr

 

[Leon Ze Professional]

It might be Fall for the northern hemisphere. But in the southern hemisphere it is the beginning of Spring.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

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Your's truly hiking in the Himalayas. Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. October, 2022.
Edit: Clearly, this photo wasn't taken by me, but by my guide with my iPhone.

If you're the one on the right, it's really impressive that you're posting photos on the internet.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

A bit of a repost from last month, but this one cropped differently. I think I prefer this one, as it takes out the flowers on the right and left.

 

[oldBCguy]

Hi everyone, welcome to September -- from my ladys latest handcrafted paper-mache creation (at age 93 and still crafting away) - a Maneki-neko (in Japanese = "Beckoning Cat") - they are found in many Asian restaurants here, 'welcoming / greeting' customers.

 

[sparksd]

Another view of Mt. Rainier from near the Sunrise Visitor Center.

 

[OneBar]

Last photo of August. Evening Sunnies from the yard.
iP11PM, shot in Moment App, edited in Darkroom App
52mm, f2, ISO 20, 1/922s

 

[fcortese]

OOPS! I thought I posted this in the September POTD but it was in August's. Sorry for the double post

 

[OldMacs4Me]

I can't recall the name for this. Probably 50+ years ago, a live cotton wood tree fell but the trunk was held above the ground and four more trees have grown from the branches of that original tree.

 

[madmin]

 

[rjjacobson]

A monarch mimic known as Viceroy on our butterfly bush flowers yesterday Urbana IL

The viceroy is a North American butterfly. It was long thought to be a Batesian mimic of the monarch butterfly, but since the viceroy is also distasteful to predators, it is now considered a Müllerian mimic instead. The viceroy was named the state butterfly of Kentucky in 1990. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Limenitis archippus
Family: Nymphalidae
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Order: Lepidoptera
Phylum: Arthropoda

IMAGE METADATA​

DeviceApple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Aperture ƒ/2.8
Focal length 9.0 mm
Exposure time1/494 second
ISO 32
Date taken Thu, 31 August 2023 2:2

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

I took this photo in New York last year, looking down West 42nd Street.

Photographed on iPhone 14 Pro Max (raw mode, 48mpx. Image resized for upload).

 

[yogeewan]

Super moon albeit cloudy

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Can we possibly remove the emojis from the thread title? Maybe it’s just my feeble brain, but it gets really overwhelming in the notifications.

 

[ovbacon]

 

[ovbacon]

Can we possibly remove the emojis from the thread title? Maybe it’s just my feeble brain, but it gets really overwhelming in the notifications.

Thanks, was having the same thought. And thanks TheYayAreaLiving for adjusting it and starting the new thread 👍

 

[MrMojo1]

Stepped inside a doctor’s office and saw this.

Would you like a jellybaby? 👶

 

[mollyc]

autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. the morning of the first of september was crisp and golden as an apple. // jk rowling