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Fall Foliage, September 2008: Sign of the Times - red vines on Main
Street in West Fairlee, VT. Red, like the Sumac leaves that turned
at the same time and which are still as red after two weeks as they were
to begin with. I got this photo of the vines on Sept 30th. Hey, I
wonder if photographers for those Vermont photo magazines know about some
of the colors I saw, early this season? I was struck by a range of
pinks to purples in the early part of the season, in the early places, so
I took it upon myself to try to catch some of the colors I was
seeing. I then came back around: October
Photos.
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| From the horse photo (9/28) farther below: I used a part of maybe a
half-mile from the camera, and used Photo-PAINT's "auto balance" feature
for color, producing this. Shades of funky things going on
in the colors of the hillside, here, at 2000 feet in Vershire. Note
the tan foliage farthest left - that's the beach tree mentioned in another
pic below. You might also notice a purple group to the right, maple in the center
(yellow-orange-red), and a more solid red to the left of that (maple or
oak).
The photo itself has a dreamy look, from using just a half-mile away
portion of the original photo. At this point in the
season, only the first colors have appeared, which tend to include more
reds, where the later colors tend to include more yellows. I never
really stopped to look at the purple, the pink, the salmon, or the
lavender.
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| 3 trees: Here's a closer look at a spread of maple orange, to I'm-not-sure-what in the middle, to
purple in the back.
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| September 28th: We're in an early place, and there are colors here I
don't normally see. There are no dead leaves. In the back of
this photo, there is something like a lavender, for a couple of
instances, and then orange in the foreground, with pink at right.
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| Sept 30th: For this photo, I used no Photo PAINT color
adjustments. It's picking up what I saw here, which includes, in the
trees, a purple, and a few rose' (like the wine). Wilmington.
And below with Photo PAINT's "auto equalize"
for color...
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| The strength of early pigmentation this year is made evident in this
photo. These reds won't leave these leaves until something is
growing out of them. Or the oranges, it seems. They are so frickin'
red. (From somewhere around Wilmington)
If only I had my camera when I was driving through Elmore, because when
it peaked this year, it was all pinkish-rose. Not the heavy,
painted red, yellow, or orange of above, but like pink petals, for
miles. I didn't get any Elmore pics, so I can only hope someone
did.
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Below: Vershire - early reds. Lot's of reds...
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| Below: We can see the tan foliage again (center-left). They struck
me this year, for realizing that they're not dead and brown (yet); they're
kind of bright. That could be a beach tree. The pinkest one,
in front, was the dominant color on the horizon south of the lake in
Elmore. You might also recognize the purplish group in back, at
right, from the photo above.
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| What's Vermont without maples? Well, you can see what happened
with the early whisking of the trees this year. The whisked leaves
below turned as deep in red as I've seen maples do (particularly at
right), while the leaves right next to them are still green. These
trees are at over 2000 feet in Vershire.
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| Below: getting a more even spread of colors on an old maple in downtown
Vershire.
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| Below: From high in Vershire, I think this is a maple, but its not
orange like the one behind it - this thing is trippy. It has a pinkish color to it, and it
is more-so pink at the bottom (a bit obscured). The top color is, in person, bright
something! There are a couple more of these trees, but the group in the
far back-left
are red.
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| Below: I could swear there's a purple tree. Here's another good
look at early "tufting" of deep pigments, with the orange tufts
of maple at left. What can I say? They're just very
orange. This year has had the greatest strength of (early) pigments
I recall having seen. Either I wasn't looking, or they weren't
there?
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