Autumn? Where art thou?
So here I was thinking to myself “Fall what a beautiful time of the year, right before my Favortire season. The crisp snap in the air, cool humidity free afternoons, football games, the leaves turning color…..” And that’s where I stop. Apparently since we haven’t had rain in the past, oh 21 days as well as it’s been a “dry summer” the tree’s around the DC metro area look like utter crap. They are still green, by now they should be in the peak or near peak stages and to be honest it’s a big let down that they aren’t.
Examples of what we SHOULD be seeing:
According to the Virginia Fall Foliage Report and Maryland Department of Natural Resources, we are right around peak time, which is utter BS because we are at the very least 2.5wks late on this “peak” season they keep mentioning. Even the local weathermen are blaming it on the lack of rain (even though left overs from a damn hurricane cam thru a dumped a few gallons on us recently) saying that it will be late Oct early Nov before we start to see the gorgeous colors we are use to.
I know to most it’s not a big deal and probably think it’s trivial but to someone that very much enjoys natures most colorful and appealing display it’s a very big deal, and frankly i’m quite disappointed. Last year this time the colors were near past peak and now 3/4’s of the tree’s not located 45 miles out of the city are still green….an ugly brown green I might add. So hopefully we’ll see some change to the pending storms that will hit this weekend, and this time next week i’ll be able to enjoy the scenic route home with all of the proper emerging colors.
B.Price
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I think its weird how last week it was really warm and now its the complete opposite. I love walking through the autumn leaves and hearing the crunchy sounds coming from the leaves. I think that autumn leaves really help beautify an area. Don’t even get me started on winter. I love the snow, hot cocoa, winter warm clothes, the holidays, the fresh crisp air, fires… I could list a million reasons on why I love the winter. The seasons fall and winter bring back a lot of childhood memories for me.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:58 am
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October 25th, 2008 at 4:17 am
I know what you mean. I can’t wait for it to get cold here! I’m tired of this. So it has cooled down a lot (yes Bobbie, it’s cooled down even though I live in AZ), but it will be cool for like a day then go back up to like 95 degrees. The winters here are so nice, cold crisp air that chills you to the bone. With day temperatures of like 60-65 then cold nights in the high 20’s low 30’s…cuddling weather.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Usually, fall for me is just pre-winter, the season I dislike most. It serves a a warning that I had better start digging out sweaters and jackets and even though I like the temperature range, I don’t like what it means.
Honestly, I never had a real appreciation for autumn until last year when we did the “treasure hunt”. Ah, remember that? Those were images that you usually see on postcards because the area had been virtually untouched by some developer looking to make a few million. The leaves were so colorful that had I not been looking at them with my own two eyes, I would have assumed they had been digitally altered. They were beautiful, weren’t they? Hopefully they’ll do it again next year but only if we can see autumn as it should be, not what we’ve been stuck with this year. You’re right. We were robbed!!!
October 29th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Meh … the Communist Wealth of VA is withholding the water … needs it to mint 700 billion. lawls. True Story.
I love t3h Autumn though .. but not the work that goes into raking leaves .. that I can live without.
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