Favorite Fall COlor

Great colour.

a stunner...

It's a great colour & a great photo!

Thanks guys! These are so wonderful in fall. On my return trip they were starting to carpet the hillsides in red. Just wonderful little wild things.

GT:

Your fall colors are starting already? Wow, that's a wonderful bright
red!

This was posted late. It was third week of august. We might see white precip this weekend! The bearberry is such a great scarlet. I just love these tiny things. Thank you.

GT:

It is very brilliant red!

That's very funny! You may have snow this weekend and we are going into a long horrible heat wave.

Our summer is ended, today is clear and golden an definite prospect for a drop in temp. We may get cold, but I don't mind missing all that heat. I'm helpless in the heat, cold you just put on boots and a coat.. :-) Stay in the AC. :-)

Ours is coming to a close, howbeit, quite slowly as the "Indian Summer" we are having is hanging around for a few more days.

The sky is almost completely cloud free this evening but surprisingly warm! Jupiter looms above the horizon & looks especially bright tonight.

Ooo, I miss star watching sometimes. Once we have a nice dark sky its cold. Plus the northern lights (grand enough) do fade the stars some. We are getting a persistent sleet right now, won't be surprized to find, yes, Sn** , tomorrow morning.

I've never been lucky enough to be far enough North as to be able to see the Northern Lights. :-( I suppose, like anything, a lot of a good or bad thing makes you tired of it or indifferent.

GT:

As I write this comment -- I'm sweltering in the heat...even with the air conditioner running!

You are correct when it's very hot like today (over 100 degrees F.) here it's difficult to get motivated or do any gardening.

It still amazes me that you're going to be receiving sleet and snow already!

However, I would brave my thin blood in the snow and sleet for a short period of time to see the Northern Lights. : > ) It must be incredible!

The lights are wonderful I miss them since there was little activity last year. I used to see them low as Idaho in my youth though very seldom. Always makes you aware there is something more than here, even if that is just accepting that the sun is causeing things not of the earth.

Any far north visit to see northern lights, I recommend Chena Hot Springs, 50 miles from my house. You can bask deep in the hot water at subzero temps and watch the lights through the steam, really wonderful. You can google the resort to check it out.

Oh, the snow did come. All down hill from here. :-)

GT:

Thanks for the recommendation...that's my idea of an Alaskan trip. I'll have to get up there one day to see the Northern Lights. I'm sure it'll be a once in a life time trip for me.

I was invited this past February to go to Barrow, Alaska to see the sun rise for the first time in 2009. I told my friend who invited me he was crazy! I can barely take the cold here (which really isn't cold. lol) ...and go to Barrow where it was -45 degrees F. (that's not my idea of fun). He did have some beautiful photos of Polar Bears just outside the town though.

They are seeing more and more polar bear out there earlier and closer to town. But I agree, Barrow, burrrrr! I don't do the coast for the wind. I don't much like wind. Why not June 21st were the sun goes around and around and the seasonal migrators are all nesting in bright green tundra around 50F. That sounds a better time for Baroow. :-)

GT:

It only sounds slighly better! 50 degrees F. on June 21st....I would freeze to death! Our average morning low temp. in the middle of January is around 50 degrees...and that's too cold for me! LOL!