Fall Foliage Report

Where I live we have few deciduous trees so any color we have is basically a couple trees here, one tree there. But I just got back from a meeting in Wenatchee, WA, and once I got over Snoqualmie Pass to the east side and got onto 970/97, the colors were eye-popping. I would guess that it's at its peak through there, or close to it. Every leaf was a bright and beautiful, the trees were full of leaves, and there were few leaves on the ground. Since my experience with nature's display is fairly limited, I don't know how long this lasts before the leaves fall, but I would suggest any PNW folks who want to enjoy it, get there soon.

I just thought that I would share with everyone on here how the colors of Autumn are shaping up this year.

So far in my hometown, the colors have started to turn, with some nice oranges appearing here and there. However, in the Worcester area, changes are slow and on my usual routes, I have not seen anything dramatic nor spectacular.

We are getting our first significant rain in quite some time this week. Hopefully it will last for awhile to give the rivers back their life. The river in my town is so low that you could almost lay down in its bed and not get wet. Along with that comes the cooler weather - most of the area was in the mid- to high-80s towards the end of last week.

It seems to be a trend the past couple of years that the colors are coming out later than normal.

Remember I told you a few weeks ago that Fall had begun here? Well, the last few weeks have probably been warmer and sunnier than the whole month of July! Pretty much the leaves stuck to the trees, yay!! It is beautiful around here (Quebec City), the leaves are just starting to fall. As for the Eastern Townships, the leaves are starting to get more colourful.

I'm doing a road trip to the Lower St. Lawrence, North Shore and New England next week so I'll be able to tell you more.

Gen

The weather is surreal here this year. I'd thought we were the only ones (two months of rain in June and July, floods, the lot followed by a week of heat (whilst I was out of the country!) a month of cold and dark and now, finally, lovely mild days instead of the winter closing in as it should be) bu Judy reports strange weather patterns and now Gen too. It's very, very odd and it's no wonder the leaves don't know when to fall off. Some of our trees actually shed their leaves in July! :s