Fall colors- how are they in your town?
 

I think the fall colors are great here in Maryland this year. I would say the peak will be this weekend.

Report in about the fall colors in your town. Thanks!

Just went 10/12-10/14 up to Newburgh, Rhinebeck area of NY - and colors were AWESOME!!!! I would say the next two weekends would also be good. It was simply beautiful - especially looking out from the Vanderbilt Mansion grounds over the water. Simply beautiful.

In San Francisco it's always the same: grey and foggy... sometimes sunny and windy.

Beautiful in Northern NJ...we're at peak now! Great colors! Now if only we could get some blue sky working for this weekend!

The fall colors in San Diego are black and orange...black and orange for kids halloween costumes and decorations; orange for pumpkin soup, and pumpkin muffins, and jack-o-lanterns.

Basically here in San diego we have to make our own fall colors because nature doesn't do it for us!

WEll, one of the Palm fronds in the tree in the back yard looks a little yellow. My hibiscus are a great yellow and red!
(weeping) I want to smell that cold fall air and walk through knee deep leaves.
Scarlett the pathetic~

Sadly, our leaves don't change. The leaves fall off the Live Oak Trees in the spring when the new growth pushes them off the trees.

The palm trees stay green all the time.

My bougainvilla is in full bloom with bright pink flowers. Does that count?

Going to work these last two weeks, it is liking driving down into a bowl of orange, scarlet, yellow. Many leaves are down now in Northern Illinois, but it is still dynamite looking. Now everything is covered and corn fields with Burning Bushes and Cosmos next to them WOW! With the eclipse last night, my front yard was NIFTY. I watched the game outside. It's been a gorgeous October. I've also seen deer, ducks, geese (walking in the rain) and my first bushy-tailed coyote in awhile. WAS HE HEALTHY!

Well here in southern Sacramento Valley
it is not spectacular. However there 2 trees outside my living room window that are the most awsome deep indian red. Do not even know what type of trees they are.

Rest of trees green basically.

Weather like SF, gray and gloomy.

Envy all of you that have a real autumn.

Scarlett, love your description of your autumn. LOL. Believe me though, I would trade places with you right now.

The cottonwoods and aspens are gold in New Mexico. The bosque along the Rio Grande is gorgeous right now.

Lee Ann

Yesterday they were beautiful here in Idaho, but right now they are covered in about an inch of snow.

About 2 hours from now it will be late fall afternoon here among the grapevines. Colors of gold, pumpkin,crimson,russett,& chocolate.
The surrounding hills look like a soft
olive velvet carpet- there's just a little of that autumn haze you only see in fall when the sun gets low on the
horizon. Makes the landscape look
soft. Canada geese and various ducks starting to arrive at the lake sanctuary. Someone's got a early evening fire started-can you close your eyes and smell it?
R5

Well as my fellow Hawaiians (as in Hawaii residents....was that PC enough? ;) ) have already stated, it's always green here. Would be nice to see the colors change. If only it wasn't followed up by five months of snow!

Thank you R5, ::)

The colors in North Carolina are simply shades of magnificent, at least from Raleigh over to our mountains in the Western part of the state. When I went to vote today, I looked down one street full of beautiful burgundy, gold, pumpkin colored trees, and a lady was walking down the street in a beautiful burgundy suit that matched, as though the Creator put her there just for the occasion! :-) And when I was standing at the pull-offs on the Blue Ridge Parkway last week.......... well, there are no words to describe the incredible symphony of Fall colors!!! Heaven must look a lot like it...... ;;)

non-existent here in Dallas..some years we have had better luck - mostly it's green...greeny brown....brown ..gone...

A walk along the Charles River, than, into the Public Garden and onto to common is an autumn delight! Mother nature has painted another masterpiece.

I was just thinking about the colors this morning on my run. Unfortunately, here in the PNW the colors are not near as vibrant as in the NE...so the pinkish and goldish colors will just have to make do. Maybe someone in the NE can send me some of those gorgeous reds and oranges, lol!

We have some trees in San Jose that turn colors, but nothing to spectacular. It's been raining, so all the leaves are clogging the gutters now.

sorry, mispelled THEN!!

We were in Yountville this weekend and I'd estimate only about 30-40% turning.

Drove home the back route thru Lake Berryessa, Winters, Davis and found about the same. Just waiting to explode is my guess!((P))

Another dumb troll post from Travdis, Bunchargum etc. Why do you people encourage this garbage?

Because we get as bored at work as he is, I guess.

Craig,
Maybe some people are "leaf peepers" and could want to go see the area near them? :-?

All right, have fun - I'll try to focus on the real travel posts :-) .

razzledazzle the Canada geese are a big problem her and they and the ducks don't leave and eat all the grass where there were sunbathers along the Charles river and now destroying the Public Garden. Ther's fighting between groups that are for or against getting "rid"of these birds.
JJ% I could see the eclipse from my window while watching the Red Sox and being on line. Today the nip is in the air, and now the beauty of Autumn is hard work as I bagged three more of fallen leaves for tomorrows pick-up.

Craig, get back to your list!

I think Craig on the US forum you are calling most threads garbage? Because alot are about seasons and nature sightings that makes us feel the difference compard to where we live.
Better leaf peepers than nasty posts.

Viva the leaf peepers!
cigale-that type of thing typically happens if humans are/were feeding the birds.They may not be feeding them now,
but habit is easy to set with critters.
Tis against City code in my sanctuary
to intereract with the wildlife.
Observation, OTOH, is encouraged !
Another month and the swans will be
back!
R5

Sorry, Scarlette - "Craig's List" is someone else's doingk, not mine.

LOL, I know Craig, but if that other Craig has a good list, you can pretend it is yours :D

Beautiful right now in the Pacific Northwest! Looking out my window are bright yellows, oranges, reds along with the towering evergreens (I live in the woods).

Fall colors? I've heard of fall colors, but what the heck is that??

We don't get those here in Austin. :-(

Since I first posted that above, my Red sunset maple in the back yard went from fire engine red to DUMP. It was like a Charlie Brown cartoon. One minute it was there, next time I came home every single leaf was on the ground.

Still real pretty and it's only about 3 years. So warm today here that it feels like summer, even with some drizzle. You can see through the dense forest again. I like winter too, even with the occasional drive in a snowstorm.

The peak of fall color here in central Minnesota pretty much ended three weeks ago. We have already had snow.

JJ5's description of the tree reminds me of a funny incident last January. My sweetie is in a professional chamber choir and they had to perform a piece by a very self-important contemporary composer. The piece was weird enough, but the guy had also written an instrumental piece that was even more weird. As a "percussion instrument" he demanded a log with dried leaves on it; the percussionist was supposed to hit it on cue.
Well, go try and find a log like that in Ontario in January. One of my friends was involved in producing the concert and when he finally found a source, after much fruitless effort, he wisely ordered two logs. The first one was brought to rehearsal, but when the percussionist did his thing, it shivered and dropped every single leaf on to the stage. Good thing they had a spare. :)

We are unseasonably warm here in Huntsville, Alabama right now, so we still have about 70% green. But the leaves that have already changes are bright and beautiful shades of red and yellow!

Here in New Hampshire, The fiery reds and day glo oranges of the sugar maples are weeks past, but there are still a few yellow birches, and of course the oaks keep their mahogany colored leaves thru mid winter.

The colors are peaking right now here in mid-Michigan and, combined with the smell of burning leaves, makes me want to bottle the colors and smells and send them on to those of you who live in those perpetually green areas of the country. I lived Southern California for 20 years and missed the Midwest most in the fall.

zootsi, I have three massive Black Oaks through and in front of a huge deck that overlooks a lake in Michigan. They are at least 80 to 100 years old. I didn't "get" it until last year, that they were just going to stay like that until the lake froze over and it was almost Valentine's Day. I was always waiting for the big dump that never came.

Didn't have the oaks before, but they sure are tons better than the black walnuts I used to have in Indiana. WOW, were they messy. And there is no way to pick up all those huge green tennis ball looking things with the tractor without ruining it. So now the acorns don't bother me as much, even when I hear them falling in the night and bouncing. Does anyone know why there were so fewer acorns this year? Colder at night in summer? Cosmos took over wild as volunteers this fall in Mich., Indiana and in Illinois. I have never seen that before. They must have all washed into mulch with all the rain this summer. Absolutely gorgeous fall weather this year.