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Post by Morningrise on Sept 9, 2018 19:30:30 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Sept 9, 2018 23:31:14 GMT -5
MorningriseFall colours have developed quite a bit in one week. Nice! 
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Sept 9, 2018 23:53:12 GMT -5
Some pics from my trip to Washington/Oregon last weekend... Ass tomato at my dad's house which I ate shortly after I took this pic. Damn that was a tasty ass:  Parched grass at Portland International Raceway (went to the IndyCar race Lommaren  )  Where me mum lives in the desert-like Willamette valley:  Walking alongside a young hazelnut orchard and toward an older hazelnut orchard. I was enveloped by a very sudden dust devil here which was quite fun and interesting. Couldn't breathe for a bit though  . I didn't notice until now but there seems to be a faint halo bisected by the plane in this shot...wtf?  Hazelnut trees. It was cooler in here during the day but noticeably warmer at night than outside of the orchard:   |
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Post by Babu on Sept 10, 2018 0:50:10 GMT -5
Wow Morningrise, those are some nice fall colors! Bizarre how much earlier your foliage is than ours even though your summer was signficantly warmer. And it's not like we haven't had a drought either. |
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Post by Morningrise on Sept 10, 2018 16:51:13 GMT -5
Wow Morningrise , those are some nice fall colors! Bizarre how much earlier your foliage is than ours even though your summer was signficantly warmer. And it's not like we haven't had a drought either. I think the early start to fall weather probably had a lot to do with it - the third week of August featured two nights around 2C, then we had a cold snap with highs well below average for almost a week, then the first week of September featured two nights around 1C and our first official frost at -1.3C, and now our daytime highs are well below average. So I think all of that probably pushed the trees over the edge after they had already been stressed by the dryness over the summer. It should also be noted that we get fall colors fairly early, even in normal years. These colors would be totally normal in late September. |
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Post by rozenn on Sept 11, 2018 18:15:11 GMT -5
Still surprisingly early compared to a location at a much higher latitude! Wondering how advanced foliage is right now in Calgary and Edmonton - and how it will look like a week from now.  Won't look like this before at least 1 month/1 month and a half here. Today's 30°C won't help the trees turn early.  Pics from Saturday in the northern outskirts of Paris:  Renaissance château  The commoners have to live in much more modest conditions.  Famous painter's grave to the left.  |
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Post by Morningrise on Sept 12, 2018 13:02:43 GMT -5
Comparison time! I was looking through my old pictures and found these ones that I took on September 8th, 2017, exactly one year to the day before those recent ones I posted at the top of this page. These photos represent what the colors normally look like in early September here - mostly green with some faint tinges of yellow starting to appear. The difference is pretty striking.    |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Sept 12, 2018 13:31:58 GMT -5
Comparison time! I was looking through my old pictures and found these ones that I took on September 8th, 2017, exactly one year to the day before those recent ones I posted at the top of this page. These photos represent what the colors normally look like in early September here - mostly green with some faint tinges of yellow starting to appear. The difference is pretty striking. Even here we have more fall colours this year than in those photos from Saskatoon last year!  |
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Post by Cadeau on Sept 13, 2018 14:38:17 GMT -5
The original forecast of today's daytime maximum was 21°C until this morning, and then with overcast clouds completely covering the sky helped kept cool all day the actual temperature peaked up to only 17.8°C. Walking around no complain about the weather to enjoy the full of autumnal atmosphere enough in the city.  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Sept 13, 2018 20:24:49 GMT -5
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Post by Babu on Sept 14, 2018 6:24:54 GMT -5
Leaving Amsterdam now. I was very surprised by how thoroughly the city was beautiful. All of the central districts of Amsterdam has the same beautiful look. Very impressive. It's as if Stockholm's oldtown would be like 4-5km across (Although it's certainly different from Stockholm's Oldtown) Tonnes of canals like these with beautiful green trees that aren't birches.   This was definitely candid.  By far most trees were green, but some trees had non-green foliage. Looked non-summery overall when it was overcast, and summer overall when the sun was shining.  And the most impressive part is how every single house, without exception, looks old and fancy, or old and quirky.  There's a street with dozens of floating greenhouses, for some reason wearing plant-image-wallpaper.  A lot of churches that all look basically the same. I think this one is the one right by Anne Frank's house.  This church's symmetry was ruined by asymmetrically planted trees... Who the fuck thought that was a good idea...?  I liked this street. This was just outside the central tourist-centered parts of Amsterdam.  I found giant leaves. I was happier than I look.  Heron chilling in disgusting waters in the Vondelpark.  It really doesn't show in this picture but this willow was fucking gigantic. Very tall for any tree, espwcially considering it's a willow, and each bough was as thick as the pine trees in Umeå.  Another park had this tree. Don't know what it is. Leaves like a maple, but with spiky chestnuts.  Heron chilling by a weeping willow. I quite like these trees. Look cool.  Some kid break dancing in a very fancy tunnel.  Fancy trains to the central station from Sloterdijk where our hostel was.  Lots of bikes in Amsterdam. A bit frustrating. Not only did you have to look out for cars (because for some stupid reason you were allowed to drive on really narrow streets in the very center, despite bicycles being so common) but also bikes. Biking is way more difficult in Amsterdam than ik Umeå, but that's mostly because there's so much moee congestion from pedestrians and bikes alike. I'm sure biking would be just as bad if not worse in Umeå if there were as many people walking and biking about. Overall a very nice city. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 11:35:22 GMT -5
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Post by Ariete on Sept 14, 2018 12:15:08 GMT -5
Early autumn colours and not too many autumn colours from today:
Are these some kind of Murican maples?
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Post by Babu on Sept 14, 2018 13:06:28 GMT -5
Those "maples" are most likely red oak
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Post by Ariete on Sept 15, 2018 3:52:44 GMT -5
Those "maples" are most likely red oak
Lol yes, indeed  |
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Post by urania93 on Sept 15, 2018 5:08:25 GMT -5
This week I was in Grenoble for work. Basically I was closed inside a lab for the most of the day, so I only managed to take a couple of pictures from the train station or along the road. The weather was still really summer-like ( link), it was a real pity to be stuck in the lab.  This is a mountain I saw along the road, near Saint Jean de Maurienne. It was characteristic enough to worth a picture. Approaching Grenoble  The bus stop near the train station:  And then in the lab it was strictly forbidden to take any picture, so that's all folks. |
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Post by Donar on Sept 15, 2018 6:47:30 GMT -5
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Post by Morningrise on Sept 15, 2018 13:53:35 GMT -5
Even here we have more fall colours this year than in those photos from Saskatoon last year! Are they coming in early for you guys too? Ours usually go really quickly even in normal years. They'll often start around mid-September and by mid-October most of the leaves are all gone. We seriously go from fully green to fully barren in like four or five weeks usually. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Sept 15, 2018 15:37:58 GMT -5
Even here we have more fall colours this year than in those photos from Saskatoon last year! Are they coming in early for you guys too? Ours usually go really quickly even in normal years. They'll often start around mid-September and by mid-October most of the leaves are all gone. We seriously go from fully green to fully barren in like four or five weeks usually. They are early this year. Take a look at my post above Baba's last big one. Not the best pictures or lighting but it should give you an idea. I'm assuming spring leaf out is pretty rapid as well? When I lived in Anchorage the trees were bare at the beginning of May. The second week they were budding and by the third to fourth week, completely leafed out. Undergrowth foliage took much longer to develop though of course. |
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Post by Morningrise on Sept 15, 2018 17:31:59 GMT -5
Are they coming in early for you guys too? Ours usually go really quickly even in normal years. They'll often start around mid-September and by mid-October most of the leaves are all gone. We seriously go from fully green to fully barren in like four or five weeks usually. They are early this year. Take a look at my post above Baba's last big one. Not the best pictures or lighting but it should give you an idea. I'm assuming spring leaf out is pretty rapid as well? When I lived in Anchorage the trees were bare at the beginning of May. The second week they were budding and by the third to fourth week, completely leafed out. Undergrowth foliage took much longer to develop though of course. Yep, the spring bloom is just as quick and sudden as the fall colors - yellow grass and leafless trees in mid-April, everything green in mid-May. |
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. I didn't notice until now but there seems to be a faint halo bisected by the plane in this shot...wtf?
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