The fall colors I love

I am not an orange, rust, burgundy kind of girl.  I do appreciate those colors splashed across a hillside, lit by the slanting rays of the afternoon sun on a glorious fall day.  But they aren't really my colors.

These are my fall colors ...

Beauty berry purple 

Callicarpa americana

and the airy, delicate pink of the muhly grass, 

with sunny yellow helianthus in the background.

Taken at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill last weekend, while on a walk with these delightful people ...