Just went up to Schenectady from the city by way of Hyde Park and then back. You can see the occasional gold coming in and a very few small bursts of red. The deep greens of summer are sure fading. Hills in the distance look like broccoli you might have kept too long.

Wish I could go back in a few weeks........

What's it like where you are?

Here in Arlington, VA, there isn't a lot of color yet but that will soon change. I suspect over in the upper areas of the Shenandoah it is somewhat more advanced.

North of Albany. Occasional gold coming in and a very few small bursts of red.

Here is OR the foliage is NOTHING like the NE That is one thing I really miss from our time in upstate NY. Here we get a few yellows and some orange, but it is so muted by comparison.

Everything here is green - except for the few things that have curled up and died and turned brown. But Central Park is never colorful until near the end of October.

OK, we've had an ongoing heat wave here in L.A. that has screwed up our fall foliage -- what we have of it, that is.

Everything is still nice and green. The citrus trees don't change color. The trees in our backyard dropping the most leaves right now are the magnolia and the avocado trees, but neither changes color -- they just go green to brown, then drop. Bumper crop of avocados this year, but most still in the maturing process. Serious bumper crop of limes this year as well.

The apples on the apple trees are the only things changing color, from green to red, other than the persimmons that generally turn from green to orange just before Halloween.

In central CT: Brushes of gold and small blotches of red against a background of green.

In central VT, it's about peak. Despite washout of a weekend, brilliant colors shone through. Very vibrant this yr.

Quite a bit of color in the Concord NH area. DH thinks it's only 40 percent so far but there's a lot of swamp maples around our house which color early. Some have bright red branches here and there but the rest of the tree is green. The color that is starting in the rest of the tree is more of a pinky red. This is kind of unusual. In true swamp areas, the trees are all red.

We had a rainy weekend but the sun started coming out late in the day. It's possible that today is going to be spectacular but looks like a warm week. We didn't get a light frost in mid-Sept like we usually do and the moon is almost full again.

Here is what it is like in my old state of Oregon:

http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...all-colors.cfm

Colorado and other parts of the West are also beautiful this time of year.

A bit more on Colorado - as we were in Colorado Springs a few years ago for an AF Academy reunion of mine, and we drove up Pikes Peak and the fall colors were just outstanding.

We later drove up the center of the state - which also had some beautiful foliage - to The Summit - Frisco/Breckinridge/Keystone - and my wife took numerous pics but these pages will have to suffice for the moment:

http://www.examiner.com/article/fall...-part-1-by-car

http://www.colorado.com/articles/asp...foliage-drives

Central NJ - Just getting started. A few reds, not much yellow yet. Give it a week!

West Central New Hampshire, we are about 60% of peak. Looks like it may be a good year. Unfortunately, the weather has been miserable the past several days.

Southern Ohio-starting to get some color. Seems early but it has been very dry all summer.

We are getting color(yellows and oranges)a little early this year in Middle Tennessee. It is rainy and only in the 60s today-I love it.

BTW - local fall color here in SD is getting another nice bloom of roses, and the new ones I planted over the summer are all doing well. Double Delight #3 is just doing great, as is Mr. Lincoln #3, the two Kordes Perfectas as well, Secret, Sweet Surrender, Elle, Abraham Darby (a David Austin English Rose), Oklahmoma #2, Firefighter, Fragrant Clouds 1 & 2 have all bloomed at least once - and just this morning - I/weput Perfume Delight in the ground. She is a daughter of the most famous rose in the world - Peace, and hadn't planned to dig another big rose hole (getting a little late in the year) but won her at the local SD Rose Society meeting last week, so hey - gotta do what ya gotta do.

Again,San Diego doesn't have much of a fall foliage/change of seasons panorama - but there are other benefits.

Well we're definitely being held up since we haven't had any really cool weather yet - never mind the killing frost you usually need to get the best colors. Still warm (75 today) and lots of showers.

It is gorgeous here in Western MA, not peaking yet.

I hope the colors in MA hold off- we are planning to visit around Oct 18 and would love to see some colors!

Came over the mountains from Western NC this past weekend and it looks like things are just "this" close to changing. A few trees are starting and it was just beautiful. Asheville NC area.