Nature is mourning with tears on the dead leaves

Well, this was a poetic exaggeration - and by the way, it was not a morning dew. I went outside after a heavy rain, these drops were formed with rain drumming over all surfaces... and, yes, still one can consider it was a nature's weeping.

In fact, I went to the park in search of a bottle; an empty bottle. While I was looking for said bottle, I came across many beautiful dead leaves, and of course I took many beautiful pictures - the annual dying of nature is beautiful, isnt it?

As for the bottles... did you notice this week prompt for the WoX photo challenge was 'Bottle' ?.. Every time I go for a walk, I stumble upon various sorts of garbage here and there on the streets (alas!)... sometimes this garbage even turns out to be picturesque! But all these empty bottles of vodka, cognac, wine, beer cans... they are countless and annoying! Municipal services work well and clean up the garbage - but the drinking activity of the city's residents often overlaps their capabilities, unfortunately.

And know what? I wandered around the park for half an hour, vainly looking for a single bottle! but everything was clean. Only when I went into a distant, rarely visited corner of the park, far from the main alleys, under a layer of dead leaves I finally found what I was looking for. As it always happens (the law of life!) things come together: not far from the first bottle I found a second one. It had been lying on the ground for so long that the label had peeled off, moisture had dissolved the paper, but the adhesive base remained (that is a matte pale rectangle on the bottle).

I added a couple of dry leaves to make a still life and thus got a decent photo for the contest. It is an empty bottle with once valuable contents, but today... it got the Spirit of Autumn! I hope you like the photo and give me your vote.

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A few more pics from the walk.

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100% SP (manual translation to SP)

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