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Tall Trees – The First Shy Blush of Autumn – Scranton, PA

© Frank H. Jump

The first shy blush of autumn
Flushed across the long faces
Of lush & lumbering late summer maples
Framing the valleys near North Scranton.

Rocky bluffs along the byways
Still bleed from the blinding torrents of Irene,
Shiny and black in the skewed & slanting sun.

Rebounding registrants reconnoiter their rolling reflections
Returning from respites at home
Or remote retreats with relatives.

Cars flashing past these sedimentary mirrors-
Surfaces which sometimes reveal fossil shells & skeletons
From a sometime Cenozoic life perhaps
Once a pre-Sargassoan northwestern sea floor.

Within weeks a bashful blush becomes a crimson flood
Bordering on bittersweet, burnt orange and soon ochre-
An evanescent process but picoseconds compared
To the protracted persistence from primordial progressions
Of paleolithic petrification.

Tacoma Dome & Freighthouse Square Area

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Historic Photo

Historic photo within Freighthouse Square

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

near Puyallup Avenue © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Trainbridge Toward Scranton

Trainbridge Towards Scranton

Trainbridge Towards Scranton

Trainbridge Towards Scranton

Trainbridge Towards Scranton

Trainbridge Towards Scranton

Trainbridge Towards Scranton

Trainbridge Towards Scranton
© Frank H. Jump

Trainbridge Toward Scranton

Trainbridge Toward Scranton

Trainbridge Toward Scranton
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Before the intersection of  Interstates 380/84 and 435.