On The Road After Dark

UncleEbeneezer

In non-Covid times, we try to go somewhere for Fall Color every year.  Living in Los Angeles, the easiest option is usually a trip to the Eastern Sierra where you get to see a ton of aspens (and some other trees/colors too, but mostly gold).  After going a little too late and a little too early in the previous couple years, we finally got the timing right in 2017 and got to se near-peak or peak color at multiple locations.  Here are some pics.  Enjoy!

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Dagaetch

Maybe it’s just because I was able to get out more than usual (having finally finished grad school, yay), but I felt like the colors this year were as good as I’ve ever seen them. Even the trees at the side of the highways were glorious for a few days. Considering the anxiety I’ve been feeling over *gestures broadly*, it was awfully nice to spend a few hours each weekend just going somewhere with my camera and not thinking about anything else.

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way2blue

I was in Salzburg for a couple weeks in late 2010, visiting friends who live near the airport. They loaned me their mother’s bicycle to get around. I mostly rode along the path by the stream,

• Glanbach

, on the back side of the airport or through the tunnel into

• Altstadt

. Sometimes I would park the bike at the base of the ridge,

• Mönchsberg

, which frames the southwest side of

• Altstadt

, climb to the top for the view and to visit the modern art museum. Short cool days, cold nights with remarkably clear weather.

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On the Road: Week of November 23 (5 am)
Albatrossity – Fall in Flyover Country #3
J R in WV – Tucson Desert Garden photos
🐾BillinGlendaleCA – An Evening by the Red Cliffs
SoupCatcher – Santa Teresa Hills
Steve from Mendocino – Mendocino, Comptche Chapter

In After Dark this week, we return for a final week of Fall Colors.

On the Road  Fall Colors: Week of November 23 (10pm)
way2blue – Salzburg In November, Fall Color
Dagaetch – Fall in MA
UncleEbeneezer – Eastern Sierra Fall Color 2017
Mike in Oly – Fall Foliage and Fruits
JanieM – Fall Color Part III

The following week, depending on whether additional Fall Colors submissions come in this weekend, we’ll be returning to Parks After Dark in the 10 pm slot.

🌺  And now, back to Mike in Oly

Mike in Oly

I’ve submitted fall foliage in the wild, fall foliage in Olympia, so last, but not least, here is fall foliage in my own yard. I am endlessly fascinated with the colors and patterns that nature displays for us as sunlight plays thru organic structures, and it is fun to try and capture that in photos.

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JanieM

This set includes a few from places outside Maine.

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Have the photos in the Fall Colors series inspired you to send in your own?  If so, now’s the time.  Thanks. :-)

Mike in Oly

Some of the fall foliage photos I have taken around my hometown of Olympia, WA. The native trees here are not all that showy for all color, but the city trees like to show off.

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JanieM

I grew up in northeastern Ohio, which has beautiful fall color but lacks the mountain vistas of New England. In later life I’ve lived on the same property in central Maine for thirty-three years and counting, so I’ve got thousands of fall color pics in my folders. It’s hard to choose just a few!

Every year is different. Some years there are tiny patches of deep red scattered here and there in early August. Other years, like this one, there’s no noticeable color until well into September. Some years the color comes gradually, other years – the rarest, and most stunning – it all explodes at once. This year it started late, but between summer-long drought and early frost it’s moving much faster than usual.

Regardless of annual variations, there are predictable phases: an early period when trees are turning but there’s still a lot of green mixed in, and then a phase when there’s no more green but also not a lot of bare trees yet. Then there’s the time – a few days or a couple of weeks – right after most of the trees are bare, when the ground is colorful and the sunny days are much brighter, because the shade is gone. (Then there’s November, which doesn’t bear thinking about, unless you’re a deer hunter.)

I haven’t tried to represent all the phases, just to capture a variety of moods. As you’ll see, I love reflections. Luckily, central Maine has a wealth of lakes and rivers to provide them.

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