NY or PQ fall pictures? Anyone?

[Grizzly]

In the past when I was a long haul trucker I would get through NY state and the Province of Quebec and get to see the fall colours. I haven't seen anything from that area in some years. I need to travel or get some help from FF friends!

[red]

I am in the Pocono Mountains PA and there is not much color yet

[Dave Shepard]

It's just starting here. Mostly the hybrid swamp maples in people's yards.

[Grizzly]

I can wait. I thought I'd ask now as I wasn't sure when it started. Our colours are almost finished and the leaves are coming down. None of my summer projects got done and now winter is here...........well, almost here. :(

[WV Sawmiller]

Griz,

   Once when I was between overseas assignments for a while I drove a truck and remember driving through upstate NY and seeing all the yellow grape leaves with big purple clumps of ripe grapes but nobody was picking them so I got on the CB and asked if there was a picker's strike or something. Another trucker got on and said "Man, they don't pick them by hand any more. Those grapes are being used for jelly or wine and they have a corkscrew looking attachment that fits on the front of a tractor they pick them with." The vines were on single wires sort of like clothesline between short posts and I guess the attachment slipped over the wire and stripped the grapes off without doing excessive damage to the vines. I suspect table grapes are still picked by hand. I also learned from a co-worker in Iraq who had a blueberry farm in NC just outside the USMC base at Camp Lejeune that they had a picker that straddled the bushes and "tickled" the berries to pick them. It is amazing what they can think of.

   Anyway, our Fall foliage here in southern WV is off to a decent start but I am afraid the leaves are going to go from green to gone if this rain keeps up.

[Chuck White]

The colors have started in this area, but nowhere near peak yet!

My 2 sons and their families are going for a ride today, down to the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake.

Up in the mountains, the foliage should be well ahead of this area!

[thecfarm]

Nothing much here. The bog area is all red,but not the hills.

[JIM GORMLEY]

I'm in Poughkeepsie ny, and its still a sea of green here.

[isawlogs]

Fall colours are here, but not the best colours I have seen by a long shot. I think it was the heat we have been getting that has the colours all screwed up.  :

[coxy]

I must live in the wrong part of ny our ash leaves are mostly gone with a lot of soft maple   the hard maples are yellow

[dgdrls]

I'm in Poughkeepsie ny, and its still a sea of green here.

Jim as I recall you should start seeing some colors soon??

its Been 26 years since I left the Putnam, Dutchess Ulster area's.
Beautiful region especially along the Hudson Highlands between
Peekskill and Beacon as well as north of Poughkeepsie.

Dan

[thecfarm]

The pictures did not come the best. I should of taken one of the bog.

This is Quill Hill. Some one had it logged than they turned it into a private road for people to enjoy the view.




 

[thecfarm]

A couple more from Quill Hill



 



 

[Grizzly]

We had some poplars going a red colour right at the tops with the standard yellow/orange lower down but that is sort of strange for them. You folks have trees that give that very rich red colour and that is what I see in the one pic by the road. What tree gives that? Or are there several that do? Those rich colours is what I miss. Thanks cfarm.

(I learned colour not color and I refuse to accept spellchecks correction!) )

[thecfarm]

I really don't know what kind of maples those are. They sure look nice.As I said I should of taken some of the meadow. Those really show some red color,but are long gone now. That flooded area ia always a couple weeks earlier than the upland ones.
Here's 2 taken right out my front door.



 




 

[Magicman]

   You have a pretty front door view.  Now about those rocks.   :