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Fall Foliage peeping is winding down but not done... yet!
Colorful trees becoming a intimate affair
by Jeff "Foliage" Folger
The late afternoon sun streams through the branches still laden with red leaves...
Gorgeous maple with fence. I love the gold orange and seldom don't get out of the car when I find one... This one is in Vermont's Green mountain forest near NF10
exploring a little fallen color with a shroom...
Room for one more!
Just a walk through the neighborhood... See what you can find
Or would you pick them all up???
Greetings Leaf Peepers
Well the color is getting harder to find with the rain and wind buffeting the New England country side.
Let say it all together.. IT'S NOT FAIR!!!
OK, now that we have that out of our systems... This is the time of the season when it gets tough to find great examples of New England fall foliage. I look back on my photos that I've taken this season and others and remember each occasion, fondly, as a special moment in time. What do you do to remember your moments? Build a scrap book? Take pictures? Write a poem... I'd love to hear what you do...
It's definitely a more intimate time for leave seekers to take their time because there isn't a hill just around the next bend in color.. It's a tree here and there in quiet solitude catching the afternoon light...
I think now is sometimes the best time to go in search of fall color. You don't have the big splash of whole hillsides in color. It's the single tree that resolutely holds onto its leaves and turns a golden orange in the late afternoon sun. Maybe you take a walk down the street or (dare we hope) a country lane. The trees that you walk under may have given up some or all of their leaves and you walk through piles of them some brown and some gold with and occasional one that is still a bright red or orange.
Do you do what I almost always do and pick up that one treasure and walk a ways with it? Maybe you drop it later on in the walk or maybe you take it home to place it in a book that you or your kids will open at a future time. Remembering back to this afternoon with the sun and the trees and this fond memory?
More on Thursday...
Check my Blog several times per week as I'm on the road to cover the foliage season with reports all week long. The Yankee foliage forum is a great place to get updates or over on the Yankee foliage Facebook fan page and Yankee on Twitter.
Halloween is coming and I'm still answering my emails on last minute plans so if you have any questions please feel free to ask them here in the comments section or in the foliage forum or in the Yankee's Foliage Fan page on Facebook and I and the other folks will do their best to answer them. Or you can email me at jeff.foliage@gmail.com.
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