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.