Thought it was absolutely gorgeous and symbolic of fall. New Hampshire is such a beautiful place.
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Thought it was absolutely gorgeous and symbolic of fall. New Hampshire is such a beautiful place.
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I agree a beautiful place. My best friend was born and raised there. He's probably sitting on some little dock up there talking to all that went before him.
Whoa!!...:jawdrop:...Ben
nice!! we usually get good color here, north east pa, but it is too warm this year for good color. 75 degs today
Northern Az gets some color.... Near Flagstaff.
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Originally Posted by Flaco
We just hit our first freeze this week. So, our colors are just starting. We're hoping for a wet Winter. Everything downstream on the Colorado needs the water - particularly Lakes Powell and Mead.
Hunter
normally we have had a hard frost or 2 by now, but not this year. suppose to be high in the low 60's an lows in the low's 40's next week. i can't wait, the skeeters and biting flies are out in force right now. heck some of my spring blooming flowers are blooming!Quote:
Originally Posted by UTAH
We need a hard freeze to turn the citrus...
Yeah, we all look forward to Winter in different ways. For me, it means a nice long break from yard work.
Hunter
From a friend in Maine:
Spent the first week of October crossing upstate New York, colors were just starting to change.. we missed the beauty of these pictures..
FYI.. did you know that New Hampshire has one of the worst prisons in the country? They make the inmates manufacture license plates that read….
Live Free or Die…
Cute joke :clap: but I can't allow it to be possibly misunderstood and become someone's misinformation :maybe:
My friend was a four term past Governor of New Hampshire. You could not find a more gentle and compassionate person. His lovely wife is a pediatric MD and his equal in gentleness and compassion. I cannot reconcile a harsh prison with John's nature.
He now teaches at Dartmouth----what a blessed group of students they are.
And for NY---you could take a second trip!
Yes Maine is also a glorious beauty during the fall. I saw this shot today.
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Thank you, my friends. You remind me of how beautiful Fall can be.
Hunter
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Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
It’s a joke.. a play on prisoners and the Live free on the license plates..
Seriously.. the license plates are probably made in China now..
I thought it was funny!
In a previous life I drove a freight truck and picked up license plates from the Texas Department of Corrections Walls Unit in Huntsville for shipment across the state. It was an interesting stop. I'm not sure, but I don't think they are made there anymore.
I love Maine but it's way to cold for me. I think I got used to the cold when I lived in Colorado 50 years ago but I never could get used to Wisconsin when I lived there 20 years ago or Michigan now when I go to see my daughter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
We have been having our first nor'easter of the fall this week---and it has lasted now four days. These days are not all bad--there is something very comforting about seeing the deer out in the field "softened" by the fog and rain. It makes me want to build a fire, and the heaviness of the air holds the smell of the burning wood down close to the ground.
Below is another from my friend in Maine, who is sharing the same nor'easter and sees the same strange comfort in this scene---it is a calming eliquor for the soul.
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My friends partner is a Lobsterman and shares a similar feeling as me when enveloped by the fog and rain of a nor'easter. It gives me a feeling of "loneness"---like I am the only one there---and as vision becomes compressed hearing is amplified. The comfort offered by crawling up into the lap of a giant old Hemlock tree is like crawling up on your Mother's lap. To be sure, nor'easters can also have periods of high winds and beating rains (or snow) coming down in sheets that move horizontally---then they offer less comforting feelings:hatoff:
Yeah, I've seen reports lately showing less fog accruing in San Francisco. It's supposedly caused by Climate Change, but all I remember is how awful it was to drive in at night. The trick to getting through it was simply following the car in front of you, and hoping he or she knew where they were going.
Hunter
Most of our roads now have a yellow "fog line" on the right hand edge of the road--and that helps. On the smallest of roads they do not have those same visual aids :whyme:
Driving in the fog at night sucks when you are the first guy with someone following your tail lights---the additional glare can be awful :omfg:
When I'm the lead vehicle in low visibility situations I know how difficult it can be for those following me to maintain a safe distance...Therefore to help anyone following me in a Kia, Prius, Expedition or any of the other lesser endowed vehicles from becoming impaled on my flatbed I installed a number of red lights to help mark my position for them...And in case someone is color blind and unable to distinguish red in their vision, the four white lights at the top of the headache rack can be switched on to illuminate the rear half of my truck and anything 75 or so yards behind it...This allows those vision impaired drivers to maintain a safe distance behind me...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
No need to thank me, it's just another public service I provide...:hatoff:...Ben
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I marvel at the rust free beauty of your flatbed.. camped one year with Houston friends and he saw how rusty the steel spare under the 2000 F350 was.. the next year he brought me a rust free Texas wheel..
I have the same 16in strip LED lights on the rear of the camper toolbox.. lost two LED in the left one.. new replacement is 1/2 in shorter and half the thickness but just as bright..
Rust?...What is this thing you speak of?...I've heard of such a creature but it lives south of here in Galveston...:dunno:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Sandman