2017 Autumn Photo Thread (NH)

It's gotten to the point where you can no longer pretend that it's still green. Sure, there are still some forest compositions that are pretty green, but most are definitely displaying fall foliage. Still not peaking though.

I decided I'd visit a forest in the city I hadn't been to before. This is where I started.


This is where I ended. The bridge in the far distance is where the previous picture was taken from.


The forest had a lot of pleasant surprises in store. I found four trees that aren't native to Umeå, three of them not native to anywhere in Sweden, and one of them, this one, supposedly non-existent in the wild north of Gävle at 60°N. In this forest at 64°N the oaks were plentiful however, although none of them reached higher than my knees. I suppose that will change in a couple of years though.


And I found a couple of these. I've never seen one before, and they're definitely not native to Sweden. Looks kind of like a distant relative to the mountain ash with the berries.


Then there's this one that I believe I've seen in a grove near where I live, although only saplings. These ones were over 3 meters tall. I have no idea what they are. Leaves are reminiscent of beech or cherry but larger and without serration.


And finally there's this one. Never seen it before and have no idea what it is. Kinda looks like those Japanese ones with really round leaves.


This part of the forest didn't really have as much fall foliage as it looked decayed. A bunch of yellow-and-brown-and-green leaves. Quite disappointing. Guess that's what happens when there isn't a single sunny or dry day in three weeks...


Like I said, some forest compositions are still pretty green.


Most, however, aren't.




And I normally despise birches, and think it's a cruel joke from god to place me in the official City of Birches. However, in certain situations they can be kinda neat.



I don't really like aspen either and I think they're quite bland, but I do have to admit they have the nicest fall colors of all our native trees.


Lastly: Fungi!

Long Island City (Queens) skyline. Quite a bit of Manhattanization going on in areas of NYC outside of Manhattan. There’s a supertall under construction to the left (outside of the frame).

Lol wut. You You're using a small bump in the road to make eastern Sweden look mountainous?

That's lommaren's hill. Its weather comes directly from norrland

It gets shitloads more snow than Owen's maritime windhole

Once I almost had to crawl up there while running after a major snowstorm.

It probably rains like Cherrapunji up there too The spot I took the picture at is roughly at 30 m asl though.

Beautiful pictures Baba!

What an odd time to break the air pressure record by the way: late September of all times I'd associate that with March or something. Apparently it was 1039 hp here yesterday evening, although cloudy, but the end of civil twilight was still pretty spectacular



The mobile camera didn't capture it so well, but that still water with those high, darkened clouds created something truly spectacular in real life at around 7.30 pm yesteday!

Crappy snapshot, but I just wanted to show it. There's actual haze in the air right now. In northern Sweden. I don't know if I've ever seen haze like this here. It's very reminiscent of how it was in Greece, although not quite as much. Strange.