Fall Foilage Reports

I just got back from a trip to Quebec's North Shore & Lower St. Lawrence. About half of the leaves are gone in the Lower St. Lawrence area (very windy) where it was all orange yellow and red a few weeks ago. On the North Shore, the leafy trees are all golden. In the Townships the colors are peaking : red, oranges, yellow and green while there is still a lot of green in VT and northwestern NH.

It looks like it's the end of the "Indian summer" here, it's getting colder and cloudy. The leaves will probably be gone in a week and a half or two weeks:o(

Gen

I like all color, but the scenery we have here around the Chain of Lakes in northeastern Illinois (and of course, nearby Lake Geneva, Wi.) as well as US 20 from Freeport, Il. to Dubuque, Iowa, is hard to beat. Bluffs and lots of hills make for some delectable views.

I just got back from a week on and around Chesapeake Bay. Colors there are just coming up on peak, but there is a decided difference between the Eastern Shore and the mainland (or western shore - I don't know that it has a corresponding name.) Around Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis colors are very close to peak especially as you move onto and above the Fall Line (the demarcation between the Piedmont Plateau and the Coastal Plain) with a good sprinkling of brighter reds and oranges among the trees. On the Delmarva Peninsula, the colors are less developed and a good bit more muted. I'm not sure exactly why there should be such a marked difference, but I did notice more oak and chestnut trees and did not see any maples that I recall on the peninsula. On the other hand, the whole Eastern Shore is speckled in state forests, parks and national wildlife refuges and it is actually a vital stop along the Eastern or Atlantic Flyway. There were times when the sky was nearly black with the ducks and geese headed south, so it offered pleasures that the more populated western shore of the Chesapeake simply couldn't. In any event, the trip was a good fix for this former New Englander - it's been too long since I've really had a chance to just walk along a coastline with Fall foliage and a nip in the air

AZBuck

I took a road trip today around the Eastern Townships and northern Vermont and there's not much color left anywhere. It's been snowing and raining since 3-4 days and it looks like we're going to get some more this week. Meaning all the leaves will be gone by next week.:o(( Some areas already have some serious floods, let's hope this rain will stop pretty soon!

Gen who misses the heat and the desert

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Originally Posted by AZBuck

it's been too long since I've really had a chance to just walk along a coastline with Fall foliage and a nip in the air

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AZBuck, It has been way too long for me too. Thanks for stirring those memories!

Mark

We definitely are going to have to make it out to New England for that foliage, maybe next fall.

Also, I'm sure Route 66 through the Ozarks in Missouri has to be quite the sight.

Of course, Lake Geneva, Wi, will knock your soxs off, especially the south shore.

This weekends rough weather has blown most of the leaves off of the trees around my house. The gusts of wind (which have been blowing for about 12 hours now) have taken care of what yesterday's downpour didn't.

As of yesterday morning, my usual commute route still had some color, but this year's hasn't been as vivid compared to years past.

So, as I often do, I like to keep in check with what is going on in other parts of the country, and I came across this story from the Richmond Times Dispatch. It sounds like they're having a better year with this than we did up here in MA.

I have lived in the state of kentucky all my life, I have visited most of the eastern coast states from NewYork down, and some of the southern states... I still dont think I have ever seen a more beautiful fall than in the hills of the appalachin. Down here in Harlan we have a wonderful fall there is no better time to go out on your four-wheelers (quad-bikes to some), or your mountain crawlers and visit. We are rated America's number one fourwheeler destination. haha enough bragging on my home county.

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Originally Posted by speck

Down here in Harlan we have a wonderful fall there is no better time to go out on your four-wheelers (quad-bikes to some), or your mountain crawlers and visit.

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Sounds really good to me. I don't think Kentucky can get too much braggin'! Do you have a preferred trail or road that you can recommend to us?

Mark