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[averygoodun42]

I'm slow. I've only just figured out why I love fall so dearly, besides the obvious drop in temperatures and humidity that is. Have I ever mentioned that sunset is my favorite time of day?

As I said: slow.



Here are the pictures I've taken in the last week. It isn't really peak season yet here, probably won't be for another week or so. Maybe even two.





















Next up: The pics taken a week before Babe's birth, 2004. A very good year, "foilage" wise.

Comments

[minuet99.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! I miss watching the leaves turn...that's one of my favorite things about fall...

[ginny-weasley31.livejournal.com]

Oh, beautiful! I love autumn colours! :D

[kismet0116.livejournal.com]

This is definitely a much better foliage season than last year. Are those by your house? If so, I'm jealous. The leaves on the trees around my house just turn brown.

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

It's really only up in the mountains that we get fall colors in SoCal. The rest of the deciduous trees get confused and turn brown- I'm convinced that it's out of sheer confusion. I suppose that this is the reason we have so many evergreens, palms, and odd succulents here. :) At least we still have cooler weather, Oktoberfest, and football to remind us what time of year it is!

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's nice living in a place where they do turn, and the weather doesn't chase them off the trees before their time. Colorado always gets a cold snap or a major snow dump just as the leaves are about to turn.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

It's looking like it'll be a good year again. Last year was pretty ho-hum. The burning bushes aren't crimson yet. It's always nice to see them glowing against the rusty bronze of the oaks. :-)

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the redish ones are right behind my house, and the others are on my block. Don't you have a maple? I thought all maples, even norways, had good color.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you don't have to travel too far to get good color. I think they've found (I'm digging this out of the back recesses of my memory, so it might be completely made up and I wouldn't know) that the trees need specific temperature and light requirements to change in a colorful way.

I wonder... do they have Oktoberfest in the Southern hemisphere?

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Wherever there are Germans, there is Oktoberfest. It's like Aussie Christmas cards that show people at the beach- adjustments are made :D Still, I wonder if they celebrate the planting rather than the harvest, or if they have green all over everything instead of orange.

Curiouser and curiouser!

[kismet0116.livejournal.com]

I actually hadn't thought about and just assumed poor soil and/or sunlight conditions were the culprit. When I looked it up, I found that apparently they mostly turn pale yellow in the fall. So in addition to being a pest, they are not a very showy tree.