Fall Foliage 2022/ Splits new home.

Best colors should be next week but today was a gorgeous day so I went with it. I live within 100 ft of one of these images.

As far as the farm goes, they took a verbal agreement then backpedaled for more than I wanted to dig in for. I was sad but put it in the Lord’s hands. He didn’t grant what I wanted, but surely gave me what I needed. I am thankful for every day I live in this peaceful paradise. The hounds and I walk miles daily. The following pics are from those travels.

I took a chance on my new house, walked in, saw good bones, and gave an immediate cash offer which was immediately accepted. I am very lucky to not have a money pit house. It is very old but solid. The original hardwood floors are not piss stained as tine dummy suggests, just stained from age and spills. I have done many projects already in this home and more to come. It’s up 50% since I bought and will easily double or more in value by the time I finish.

Blue heron and where they nest.

Praise God, thankyou for this peace in my latter years.

For chaps, a barred owl feather found in my backyard. I saw him once, stands about 2 ft tall and sings to his sweetheart at night. Beautiful.

Very nice. Thanks for the pics.

Being from the southwestern US, we do not get things like this.

I attempted to make two fall foliage trips to New England, but neither worked out very well.

In 2007, I was arriving a bit early for it (I had no choice, as I was combining it with another reason I was going east), and then it was unusually warm that fall, so foliage had not really changed much yet. I only found it when I went to higher elevations, where it begins earlier.

In 2013, I made a trip specifically for this, and researched exactly when to arrive, though there's some variance due to weather. Fortunately I arrived during peak fall foliage colors. However, 2 days before I got there, a major wind storm blew all the leaves off the trees. Fail.

Maybe I'll try again sometime, but it's a lot harder to come in October than it used to be, because my kid is older now, and it's not trivial for him to miss school. Oh well. I guess I'll have to be one of those old guys who does it when his kids are grown.

This isn't my pic, but I would also like to see it in the Great Smoky Mountains:

https://www.visitmysmokies.com/wp-co...Gatlinburg.jpg

Last year I drove from Montana to Maine on a fall colors tour. Also hit the east cost casinos going and coming. Best colors I seen were in Vermont.

In Montana the best fall colors are up around Glacier Park. I made that tour this year. It was cloudy and rainy but still got some good shots. Going To The Sun Road runs east/west thru the Park. Ran into fog at the top of Logan Pass which ruined the view for most of the way down the west slope. I'll have to drive it again next year.

From this morning, agree the weather can ruin peak color plans so getting what I can before peak and hopefully peak will be good too.

Took a trip up to the Fryeburg Fair in Maine. Colors were near peak. The entire ride I’m saying, “wow, look at that”. Never got old.

Oxen & horse pulling. Livestock judging. All that 4-H stuff. Not usually my thing but I’m trying to be a better person with mixed results. The fair-goers were clearly rural Mainers. Men weren’t wearing skinny jeans and sporting mustaches, for instance.

Trump habitat.

We find we are enjoying very rural destinations these days. Places unspoiled by speculators and development. Restaurants are especially more interesting and real. The whole experience is uplifting.

On our 2007 foliage trip, we passed through a small town in New Hampshire. It was Friday night, and the entire town was having a rally for the high school football team.

We pulled over and joined it. I was a bit worried they'd recognize that we weren't from there, but if they did, nobody cared.

Was fun. They were handing out corn on the cob and other food, we cheered along with everyone else, and for a short time, I felt like I was really part of the town.

Would do again.

This feels Marty-esque. Posting a bunch of random pics of scenery you live nearby. Can you please post a pic of that dump you just paid cash for? Do you shit in a outhouse?

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This isn't my pic, but I would also like to see it in the Great Smoky Mountains:

https://www.visitmysmokies.com/wp-co...Gatlinburg.jpg

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Tried to make it every year to the Blue Ridge Parkway this time of year when living in North Carolina; the traffic on weekends was impossible to navigate so usually would go up on a Monday or Tuesday night, stay in a nearby hotel and go driving/hiking the next day. About the only benefit to living in the South was the weather overall and especially fall.

Huge downgrade in the Pacific Northwest, as fall kind of comes and goes before rainy weather sets in. Unseasonably warm this year so at least that means a longer time before gloom. I mind it less and less with each year I live here but the first year especially was an adjustment to not seeing the sun for months.

Even if Portland was nicer and hadn't devolved into a god forsaken shithole I still would be looking to move in the next year. Good weather is one of those things you take for granted until it turns to shit; even prefer Wyoming weather where it was routinely like -30F with windchill but often sunny throughout winter.

Probably last of year, gonna snow most of week.

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Originally Posted by splitthis

Probably last of year, gonna snow most of week.

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Nice, did you get the crops in on time and are the buildings in shape to protect the herds from the
inevitable Arctic blast?

Also, I would love to hear your take on Ukraine, in particular efforts by allies dedicated to life, liberty and decisions based on the profit motive.

What would Ronny Reagan do? Do you avoid a potential money pit or fight evil at every opportunity?
Republicans in general seem to be torn.