I started working at Greenbriar Hills Country Club back in March of 2018 as a seasonal job on the turf crew there…really enjoyed it, my bosses all like rocks in some fashion, and are nice to work for too. Starting in September, I asked my big boss if I could take my camera with me and shoot sunrises when it looked like we were gonna have a pretty one and he was okay with that…and asked him about shooting fall color while working and he was good with that too. So on the morning of Sept 6th, as I was driving back from mowing Green # 2, I stopped on the bridge over the UP railroad tracks and shot this stunning cotton-candy sunrise….

 

…and again from 4 Fairway as well….

…and a few min later, I shot Green 7 as well as the lakes and fountain in one of the lakes, looking to the west…

I was on my way up to mow number 9 and 10 greens, as I drove down the cartpath by 9 Fairway, I looked back over my shoulder and liked the looks of the sun`s morning rays coming down thru the trees behind me….

A few mornings later, I was mowing 5 Green and spotted these pretty clouds up over the hillside east of me….

…and it bloomed into this beautiful cloud filled sky soon after….

A few weeks later, I was on my way back from mowing the Putter Green and as I approached the Driving Range, I spotted these pretty clouds in the eastern skies…I`ll post the lighter version so you can see some of the driving range as well as the darker version to get a truer sense of the cloud colors….

…a few minutes later, it morphed into this on my arrival at 5 Green….

After finishing up 5 Green, I headed west on the cartpath and from the Halfway House, looking across the lake, past 7 Green and uphill, I could see the beginnings of some fall color in the Maples on the hill above finally….

and in the Maples of subdivision homes to the north of the golf course, as seen from the hilltop teebox of number 12…

I was told that a retired NY Giants Baseball Player lives in the white colonial style house top middle of the photo. About an hour later, on my way to mow 14 Green, I spotted the pretty white Egret that has been hanging around our lakes, does a lot of fishing there….this time he was over on the west side of the lake under the pretty fir trees….

A few mornings later, I looked up from mowing 2 Green and spotted these pretty fluffy and deep orange clouds coming up over the treeline back to the west…..

…and a little lighter here….

A week later, we were finally starting to see the fall colors creep on into the trees around the course…we had some early cool temps, then it got hot again and kind of stalled things a bit, confused not only the trees but many of us as well…so we wound up having a rather colorful fall season,albeit a late one. One day late in the morning, I was mowing around the teeboxes, and was up on the hill near 12 when I spotted alot of beautiful color, so I took a quick photo of the color around the box….

…there are a lot of trees besides maples, planted up on the hill, that really sport some nice fall colors, and the cartpaths wind their way thru this canopy of color quite well, makes for an enjoyable day let me tell ya….

We were seeing a lot of deer once again, they were very active back in the springtime and of course in the fall you deal with the rut and they become super hyper-active, which can create a lot of extra work for us in maintaining the golf course. I didn`t seem to have my camera with me during some interesting sightings of the bucks…there were some big ones down there every morning…and we had a couple of does that had several fawns as well…we saw the triplets nearly every morning somewhere near the Clubhouse and on the other side of the course were two fawns with their momma. On my way home one afternoon, I had a fawn and doe cross the road in front of me and when momma stopped in the yard across the street, I stopped and photographed her through my truck window….

The next day, while I was out mowing greens again…we do that daily….headed down 3 Fairway to 3 Green, I noticed the maples on the hillside near 4 Teebox were coming on with the fall color….

…and after working on 3 Green, I headed to 4 Green, noticing these wild looking fluffy clouds on the way up there…

…thirty minutes later I was headed up to the hill and chose this cartpath up the beautiful canopy of fall colors….

…after finishing up on the hill, I drove down the hill and crossed 12 bridge,  then shot back across the lake, showing the fall color between 8 and 12 Teeboxes….

…and then drove over to 12 Green to mow it….this is the fall color backdrop behind the green, up on the hill in one of the subdivisions there….beautiful backdrops where I work at….

I was on my way up to the Clubhouse later that morning, so I took the street up around the course and discovered alot of fall color in the yards of the homeowners….luckily for me, most of them seem to like Maple trees too….

Five days later, even more color all over the golf course, central was the hillside tho, and from every angle it just looked better and better. I stopped along the cartpath up on 13 Fairway….

….to shoot 4 Teebox and the hillside of color behind it…one of my co-workers was on his way somewhere in a cart….

Later that afternoon, up on the hill, it was pretty too….

The next day was the last week of color for us, but also the week of the very best color too…it started raining and many of the leaves came off in the ensuing days…this was a little wet weather waterfall I spotted near 4 Teebox….

…the shortcut path up the big hill….

…and a beautiful tree/shrub next to 9 Fairway cartpath…..

…one of our trees in 6 Fairway was a late season stunner….

…shot that from the cartpath along 13 Fairway…which I think looks great either direction….

…and this little Maple beauty is a great fall color anchor at the entrance to the Driving Range…

A week later I started my fall vacation in Arkansas and while down there freezing my butt off, during the coldest fall season in southern Arkansas that I can remember, there were two small snowstorms in Missouri that ended my season at Greenbriar. It was nice while it lasted tho and I sure enjoyed it, made alot of new friends there…Nate one of my supervisors, is planning to go rockhunting with me this winter season if we get some good weather and he gets some free time to go. 🙂