Chasing Color again

[JustPassinThru_imp]

That's one thing I really miss about life east of the Mississippi. The fall colors...everyone should experience them once, in early October, in the Great Lakes. Perhaps the Smoky Mountains, too, although I don't know them.

Colorado...California...Texas...Montana...you don't get the colors. Here, in the valley, settled a hundred years with lots of irrigated, transplanted maples, there's a little bit of it...but not the dramatic reds and full golden canopies you get over there. There's some yellow from the aspens; and splotches of color from the birches in some regions...and that's about it.

I was in Wisconsin for a quick trip a month ago, but it was too soon. Temperatures were just starting to come down; everything was still green. My loss.