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Fall Foliage report & fun foliage contest for kids
Foliage drawing and Beaver Pond (route 112) update
by Jeff "Foliage" Folger
Right on route 112 which is west of Lincoln NH. there is a nice scenic pull out that you can park at and get out and stretch your legs.
Morning clouds come through Franconia Notch
A small back road near Sunset Hill House Inn
30 Sept 2009
Greetings Fall Foliage Peepers
Submit a Picture to Win YankeeFoliage.com's Kids Zone Foliage Drawing Contest
Foliage Drawing Contest
YankeeFoliage.com, Yankee Magazine?s foliage Web site, is online year-round, but lights up just as New England's landscape does in the fall. This year there's a special fall foliage area called Kids Zone on [YankeeFoliage.com][3], where kids can color, learn about leaves, make craft projects, enter to win a coloring contest, and complete a fun learning activity about why leaves change called Hidden Colors. The activity is provided courtesy of Sue Stoessel, who loves fall and is a senior education associate at the Museum of Science, Boston.
To celebrate fall and Kids Zone, Yankee Magazine is hosting a foliage drawing contest for children ages 13 and under. To enter Yankee?s contest, submit your original drawing of a fall scene. Artwork will be judged by Yankee's editors who will choose the best picture of fall's bright colors based on artistic originality, technique, and color selection.
Beaver Pond for 2009
I drove up late on Monday to Lincoln NH (amazing, no tourists clogging the highway). :-) I got off and drove over route 112 to Lost river rd, to stop at Beaver Pond. Last year it was an overcast day and today was no difference. Actually the one difference is that last year on the 29th of Sept it was more colorful than Monday the 28th. As you can see on the right the color is very nice but I'm always amazed by the differences each year brings. I keep telling all of you that no two years will be the same. Then I wonder why I, who observe it very closely, can't find peak to point it out to you... Come back to get more pictures and route details later this week.
Foliage reporting ambassadors
Folks who live up here or those who have web access while they are touring are encouraged to log onto Yankee?s foliage website and then click on the interactive map and tell us what you are seeing. You can now upload a picture of what you are seeing also but due to a glitch it is only taking it from Internet Explorer. Also if you make a report you are entered into Yankee?s foliage reporter contest where you win a two day spa treatment.
Don't forget to login on the forum Jeff's contest thread is open to guesses to figure out my total mileage this season and to win either a boxed card set of my foliage series or a HD DVD fall video. (the video is not my pictures; I just purchased it on Amazon)
Yankee's Foliage Fan page on Facebook and Yankee on Twitter.
Autumn is here and I hope to hear from you throughout the rest of the fall, 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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