Frost on the Pumpkin

icedog · 10-04-2008, 01:01 PM

I went out for coffee and found frost on my windshield this morning! I love Autumn and winter. Maybe because I was born in October or maybe because I grew up in New England where Autumn is the most beautiful season. In any case, I really get invigorated when it's time to break out the jeans and flannel shirts.

Anyone else? Any favorite foliage pictures?

Nord Jim · 10-04-2008, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by icedog

I went out for coffee and found frost on my windshield this morning! I love Autumn and winter. Maybe because I was born in October or maybe because I grew up in New England where Autumn is the most beautiful season. In any case, I really get invigorated when it's time to break out the jeans and flannel shirts.

Anyone else? Any favorite foliage pictures?

Not yet. Not down here. They won't be as good as Connecticut anyway.

Your post makes me nostalgic for my origins way north of here. I actually have grandparents buried in Newtown, at St. Rose.

j

WireBeard · 10-04-2008, 06:12 PM

Leaves are turning here in Colorado, but we don't have the maples, so we don't get the amazing reds and oranges. Aspens do a cool almost fluorescent yellow, though.

Also an October baby here....Libra?

Chris L · 10-04-2008, 06:26 PM

Fall is my favorite season. No bugs, soups for dinner, wool shirts, no sweating when working outside, beautiful colors, good sleeping temps, yep, Fall is my favorite. Our first hard frost in central Minnesota was last night.

Chris L

Nord Jim · 10-04-2008, 06:27 PM

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Fall is my favorite season. No bugs, soups for dinner, wool shirts, no sweating when working outside, beautiful colors, good sleeping temps, yep, Fall is my favorite. Our first hard frost in central Minnesota was last night.

Chris L

Mmm, came late this year.

j (former Minnesotan)

Chris L · 10-04-2008, 06:30 PM

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Mmm, came late this year.

j (former Minnesotan)

Yep, but we're not complaining. Spring hung on forever and a day so Summer this year seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. Hopefully we'll have an extended fall before our months of winter kick in. If I was in Duluth, I'd say "before our six months of winter kick in."

Chris L

Philadelph · 10-04-2008, 06:31 PM

Hell yeah! Fall is my favorite season as well! Halloween my favorite holiday. My birthday in November. I love the trees changing color. It would even be vibrant down in Philly where I grew up. I am into mountain biking now and can't wait to be riding through the woods with leaves falling everywhere in every color! Then again, it's hunting season... I better be careful!

Nord Jim · 10-04-2008, 06:35 PM

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Yep, but we're not complaining. Spring hung on forever and a day so Summer this year seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. Hopefully we'll have an extended fall before our months of winter kick in. If I was in Duluth, I'd say "before our six months of winter kick in."

Chris L

Right-- to be followed, of course, by Road-building Season.

j

iron maiden · 10-04-2008, 06:56 PM

I love Fall. The colors are really nice, and they're just starting to turn here in Ohio. Alex, mountain biking in the Fall is really neat. The smell of the leaves is very intoxicating...might even make a good shaving soap....but the trails get a little hard to see because of all the leaves.

The title of this thread "Frost on the Pumpkin" is so appropriate. My dad says the same thing from time to time, especially this time of the year.

icedog · 10-05-2008, 02:35 AM

I'm a scorpio.

We just got five cords delivered today. Not a day too soon as it was 58 degrees in the house and 32 even outdoors. Put the first fire in the stove four hours ago and it's nice and toasty in here now. We heat only with wood from a single stove. I know many would hate it and at times so do I but this time of year, that smoke lingering out the door, the dog and cat lying together in front of the stove, the hot steel box drying out the mold from the long, humid summer as the yellow and orange leaves fall steadily from the huge sugar maples outside the windows is all good to me.

WireBeard · 10-05-2008, 06:17 PM

N-i-i-i-i-i-c-e. All I have is a sucky gas fireplace...blech. I miss splitting wood, building a nice fire that burns all day and night...a nice cup of coffee, a book, 1 dog, 1 cat...quiet.

I drove up into the mountains yesterday with my dog and took some photos...we still have green among the yellow Aspens...made for some nice pics.

icedog · 10-06-2008, 04:47 AM

Now that my digital camera has drowned, I am back to shooting film which means I am back to having film processed before I can post images. Here's one from Maine last year:

Here's a young Basil on a very frosty morning three years ago:

I'm not crazy about swans but they sure did strike a pose for this shot in New Canaan, CT two years ago:

The best view in Newtown:

The same steeple from the other side:

icedog · 10-06-2008, 12:44 PM

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N-i-i-i-i-i-c-e. All I have is a sucky gas fireplace...blech. I miss splitting wood, building a nice fire that burns all day and night...a nice cup of coffee, a book, 1 dog, 1 cat...quiet.

I drove up into the mountains yesterday with my dog and took some photos...we still have green among the yellow Aspens...made for some nice pics.

So? Let's see them there pics you got.

icedog · 10-06-2008, 01:32 PM

I found some shots of Basil and Mr. Toes together in front of the wood stove. When it's hot, for the boys it's more like Wood stock. They just gather there and hang out nice nice:

maplemaker · 10-06-2008, 04:47 PM

Wow, Icedog, what incredible shots.

I don't have pics of Utah winter, because there's nothing to photograph but snow. (I did get some pics of Union Pacific trains in some of that snow this January, however.) I have a little hollow place in my heart that feels warm and nostalgic when I'm outside at night, with a nip in the air, the smell of pine smoke from a chimney and the sound of a 3-chime diesel locomotive sounding in the distance... Good times. If I could take a pic of that...

icedog · 10-06-2008, 07:57 PM

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Wow, Icedog, what incredible shots.

I don't have pics of Utah winter, because there's nothing to photograph but snow. (I did get some pics of Union Pacific trains in some of that snow this January, however.) I have a little hollow place in my heart that feels warm and nostalgic when I'm outside at night, with a nip in the air, the smell of pine smoke from a chimney and the sound of a 3-chime diesel locomotive sounding in the distance... Good times. If I could take a pic of that...

Hey thanks!

Does it snow in Monument Valley? I would think that'd be breathtakingly beautiful.

I hope folks aren't burning too much pine in their homes. Evergreens load up chimneys with creosote real fast.

Here's our wood for this winter. It's all oak and maple. How's that for unAmerican? We don't burn any oil

maplemaker · 10-07-2008, 02:04 PM

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
DON'T BURN MAPLE, SEND IT TO ME!!!!
AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

Actually, I need a good lead on where I can get quarter-sawn rock maple. I think it's a good thing to be able to lay up a supply of heat for the winter and not have to be dependent on a monopolized or subsidized fuel. That I'm aware of, it doesn't snow in Monument Valley, but it really would look beautiful. Have you been out here to the big canyons or Cedar Breaks? I love the colors and the vast open spaces, but the pics I see occasionally (like what you have posted) show me that I'm really missing out on natural beauty with all the green and the rolling hills. New England is the only part of the U.S. I've never been sent to or visited, and I'm going to have to remedy that. Oh, and pine is what we have most of out here, so pine is what gets burnt. I wish I had a chimney in my house.