Mandala Monday: Autumn Leaves

I'm joining Dawn at Girl Unwinding for another Mandala Monday.

But first, I wanted to show you what my front and side yards now looks like right after a downpour and much colder temps.  The old tree in front has now given me some stunning golden leaves,

while the front garden has now stopped producing flowers and looks really ugly.  All I see for as far as the eye can behold are green and brown.  And those aren't fish floating in my tiny pond, either. 

By using my zoom lens (YES, I love my new camera), I even captured my neighbor's bush, which has turned a fiery red and yellow.  Of course, that meant I had very little mandala fodder to work with this week.

I picked these leaves off the ground while they were still wet and allowed them to air dry.  When I assembled the mandala, I was surprised that some of the leaves started to curl.

All yellow and brown leaves came from my big elm tree, the green leaves are from vinca vines that have virtually taken over my front garden, and the round bits are rose hips from my rose bush. 

I thought the rose hips looked a bit like baby pumpkins or possibly small mangoes.   

The center rose hip still had its top hat.

Of course, I had to take a close-up of the design the plate left in the sunlight on my dining room table.

This is day four of
AEDM, and I created a Mandala for Dawn at Girl Unwinding, our Mandala Monday host.