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Related: About this forumPoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)Where is that? It's lovely. The home owners should charge a fee for anyone looking at that.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Took a road trip to Evansville from Sun Prairie (WI) for grandsons soccer game this afternoon and the orange and red hues from the trees were simply stunning!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)In a fall tree leaves related story, some years ago, when I lived in Overland Park, KS, I was getting ready to take my kids to school when I saw leaves gently drifting down from a neighbor's tree directly across from us. We watched in awe and wonder for as long as we could, until I absolutely had to leave to get the kids to school on time. It was a completely windless day, I want to add.
So I drove the kids to school, perhaps 40 minutes round trip, thinking that when I got back I could just continue watching those leaves drift down. But in that time, every single leaf had fallen off the tree. Wow. It was the single most spectacular example of leaf falling I have ever experienced in my lifetime.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Once in a lifetime Im betting ..
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 2, 2021, 11:25 AM - Edit history (1)
I'm 73 years old and that's the only time I've seen the leaves fall like that.
I did originally grow up in northern New York State, until the age of 14, and got to see spectacular fall colors every year. I miss that, even after all these years.
I have had the pleasure of living in several different parts of the country, and because I love fall, I have carefully noticed what it's like in different places. I'm currently in New Mexico, and our leaves here mostly turn bright yellow. I went for a drive earlier today with a friend and we agreed that the trees were prettier, a brighter yellow, than they'd been in recent years.
When I lived in the Kansas City area, I noticed that the trees turned shades of peach and purple that I have never seen anywhere else. And the fall colors typically last much longer there than in many other places.
When I lived in DC, what was best was that we really and truly had four seasons. All were gorgeous. One year, starting in the fall, we had four spectacular seasons in a row. That year the fall colors were amazing, and many days when I got off work (I worked at DCA, Washington National Airport) and lived in Alexandria, VA, I'd drive all the way to Mt. Vernon on the George Washington Parkway just to see the beautiful trees. Winter was relatively cold and snowy. A real winter. Spring was phenomenal. The dogwood trees, in particular, blossomed incredibly well. Actually, even a poor spring there is pretty good. Summer was nice because that year, the fourth of these four consecutive seasons, it did not get above 90 degrees until after the 4th of July, which meant we didn't have as much oppressive heat as usual.
I love weather. I love the seasons. I love it that where I currently live I have very dark skies so I get to see the stars and the planets well. Lucky me.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Smaller than the eastern ones but nice.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)burrowowl
(17,641 posts)You can google it, call the Cibola Forest Ranger station.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,640 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Thank you!
Bluethroughu
(5,172 posts)I have a couple, and when the leaves begin to fall, I feel as if my heart can't wait until next autumn to see it glow behind a grey sky.
Moondance by Van Morrison plays mind.
Thanks for sharing...
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Youre fortunate to have them in your very own yard.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)question everything
(47,487 posts)calimary
(81,322 posts)I'm obsessed with collecting beautiful leaves and then pressing them so they're flat. I figured out you can keep their beautiful colors if you only do two or three layers of 'em between paper towels - at a time. LORDY LORDY is Oregon beautiful! It's been several weeks of absolute drop-dead gorgeousness - EVERYWHERE!
PatrickforB
(14,577 posts)Lawn still green, sky a beautiful azure, and the tree a fiery explosion of reds and golds. I love pictures like this.
Well done!