Re: C&TS Fall Colors - beautiful THIS WEEK
| September 25, 2016 08:24PM |
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Hi, Dave -
The USUAL peak is around the last week of September / first FEW days of October, but there's really no accurate way to predict exactly what will happen from year to year. Back in 2009 I spent a marvelous day chasing around with Roger Hogan and Michael Ripley on September 29. That evening there was some wind, and the next day 1/3 to 1/2 of the yellow leaves were on the ground . . .
There were still quite a few green leaves that hadn't turned yet - see [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net] - so there was still some color for several more days, but the peak was clearly September 29. Per reports from others on the NGDF, and from Roger posted elsewhere, there is a lot more orange this year than normally. The Friends' charter about a week from tomorrow should be phenomenal!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
The USUAL peak is around the last week of September / first FEW days of October, but there's really no accurate way to predict exactly what will happen from year to year. Back in 2009 I spent a marvelous day chasing around with Roger Hogan and Michael Ripley on September 29. That evening there was some wind, and the next day 1/3 to 1/2 of the yellow leaves were on the ground . . .
There were still quite a few green leaves that hadn't turned yet - see [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net] - so there was still some color for several more days, but the peak was clearly September 29. Per reports from others on the NGDF, and from Roger posted elsewhere, there is a lot more orange this year than normally. The Friends' charter about a week from tomorrow should be phenomenal!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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