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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 19, 2014 20:19:55 GMT -5
We're having a really good leaf year because we've had lots of sun. Unlike you, however, we don't live in one of the most spectacular places to live in the fall. Just curious; is this a good year? How about it for other folks?
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Post by epaul on Oct 19, 2014 20:40:13 GMT -5
Good year. The color change is really spread out this year as there hasn't been a stout frost yet to hurry up the laggards (in Grand Forks, the lowest temp I have recorded this fall is 31. I actually picked a couple tomatoes that somehow made it through our succession of 31s). Some trees are bare while others are just starting to turn, and they can be the same variety of tree.
Every year is different.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Oct 19, 2014 21:00:02 GMT -5
The leaves here are spectacular this year. The weather must have been perfect for fall leaf color.
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Post by millring on Oct 19, 2014 21:45:50 GMT -5
My yard is usually colorful this time of year. But this year has been more brilliantly colored than any year in the 25 I've lived here. The maples sometimes just go yellow then brown. Not so, this year. This is the tree in front. I didn't do anything to process the image in photoshop -- no brightness, contrast, color balance, saturation. This is just the way the camera saw it.  |
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Post by Tamarack on Oct 19, 2014 23:29:10 GMT -5
It appears to be an average year in Michigan. Went up north late last week with colors at their peak, dominated by orange maples. Mid-state yellow birches and aspen predominate. Around here lots of trees are still green.
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 20, 2014 5:44:31 GMT -5
Usually we have a lot of the brilliant orange/red that John has so spectacularly pictured. This year is a little muted. The gradual onset of temp change was a limiting factor. Need some sudden crisp weather to get the timing right. There's definitely enough tho'.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 20, 2014 7:39:24 GMT -5
Dead, Todd.. . . , they're dead.
Actually quite colorful these days. I've said it before; one of the things I love about Fall scenery is the way the stark colors and sharp lines of roads and sidewalks and driveways, (and all sorts of man-made stuff) gets softened into an Impressionist Landscape.
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Post by Lonnie on Oct 20, 2014 10:23:24 GMT -5
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