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Post by nei on Nov 6, 2019 18:40:42 GMT -5
morning bike ride to catch the last of the season foliage. Palisades park just north of the George Washington Bridge, opposite upper Manhattan and Bronx. Just after getting into the park, looking at the Palisades cliffs  looking north  nice yellow on the park road  and nice small waterfall  beautiful morning, low angle sunlight through the trees   reds   couple more another waterfall; water leverls don't look particularly high  |
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Post by nei on Nov 8, 2019 21:47:24 GMT -5
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Post by urania93 on Nov 9, 2019 12:07:29 GMT -5
Today I was travelling back to Italy by bus, it was a surprisingly sunny day in comparison with the last couple of weeks on both sides of the Alps and so I managed to take some pictures of snowy mountain tops along the way.     ^magical window reflexes   ^ It snowed down to 1000-1300 at some point during the last week, so in the highest point of the road (altitude about 1300 m) and on the shadow side there was still some snow around. If in France it looked sunny already, on our side there was barely any cloud around!   ^very bad picture because of the bad angle with the window, but that's a different perspective of the same mountain I usually post (my usual picture is at the end of the post).  ^that's another perspective of that mountain too, actually (quite a lot of the local roads just turn around it)  And, finally back home!  (It was 3 pm and the whole village was already on the shadow of the mountain just west of us, d'oh!) |
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Post by Yahya Sinwar on Nov 9, 2019 12:45:27 GMT -5
November 8, 2019, J.C Raulston Arboretum, contains thousands of species and its claim to fame is something is blooming in every season so there is always something cool to see. I, of course, is the palm nut I enjoy seeing the hundreds of palms everywhere, maybe even thousands. They got them everywhere scattered around the property. I won't post all the pictures, they are well over 100 but ill post the cool stuff ( to me lol) like the NC hardy Guava, the grapefruit hybrid, the palms, flowers, and other neat things.
   
  Bananaaaa   HUgeeee live oaks    Little palms sprouting up, not planted      End of album 1... skipped a lot of pics wont bore you with many more palm pics lmao theres too many. Will stick to flowers and nice scenery in next posts |
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Post by Yahya Sinwar on Nov 9, 2019 12:57:38 GMT -5
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Post by Yahya Sinwar on Nov 9, 2019 13:02:25 GMT -5
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Post by Wildcat on Nov 10, 2019 10:29:33 GMT -5
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Post by ral31 on Nov 10, 2019 21:01:02 GMT -5
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Post by Speagles84 on Nov 12, 2019 16:31:45 GMT -5
First 1"+ of the season (2nd accumulating), have about 2" as of 4:30 PM.
Woods behind my home
I see you
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Post by Babu on Nov 12, 2019 19:54:18 GMT -5
Some old pictures from October 14th I never got around to editing and posting. Went to - you guessed it - the arboretum/rapids again, this time way past peak (even though foliage was still peaking a week before) and with my friend and our dogs.  This maple forest wasn't past peak yet though  When October came, foliage started disappearing at such a rapid rate  My dog doesn't really like playing with other dogs, and his dog is fucking ADHD autistic as fuck and wants to play rough 24/7 and doesn't fucking get that my dog doesn't want to play with him.  Running out of terror, not play.  Found a whole bunch of larch, seemingly growing completely naturally. Never really seen larch in the wild here.  Looks nice despite the lack of foliage  Water level was the lowest I've ever seen it. This is supposed to be a rapid. And like 50mm of rain had fell just a few days before.  Took a nice and relaxing fika. Nice and warm coffee in the cold weather.  Ventured out on the dams  And my friend's fucking ass dog kept fucking RUNNING AROUND like a fucking MANIAC over the dams and lo and behold he got what was fucking coming for him.  The low water level was killing salmons by the hundreds. In each of these small ponds there were multiple of these disgustingly sick looking salmon. I have no idea what kind of disease that struck them, but all the salmon had these weird white patches. We saw soooo many dying salmon, and we saw just as many already-dead salmon. Fucking disturbing.  I managed to slip into the water because the rocks that were shaded by the forest were covered in frost and got super slippery under my wet soles, and then it started getting really cold, so we headed back.  |
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Post by nei on Nov 12, 2019 23:22:10 GMT -5
Bike ride on Sunday. Missed the train at Grand Central, so killed time by biking in Central Park. Mix of green and bare  then went through Harlem to catch the train. Harlem was nicer looking than I expected Train pulling in  train station where I got was less developed. Upstate Stratocrapulus. In upstate's defense, NYC clouded over that day too  small farms  nice river along the bike path  and icicles  Gay. House says it's from 1769  hint of snow from a few days earlier   Taconics make a big wall bare trees line the bike path nicely short hike to Bish Bash Falls. Trail crossed the state border to Massachusetts   me view across to the catskills  sunset   |
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Post by Hiromant on Nov 15, 2019 11:10:45 GMT -5
A friend took this in Tallinn this morning. Temperature was around 0°C.  |
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Post by nei on Nov 15, 2019 12:23:20 GMT -5
Wednesday morning; below freezing but plenty of fall color left on the street trees   cultural approporiation or an actual Hindu living there?  bus stop has an ad to visit Seoul Giorbanguly. Don't like emphasizing "correct gender styles" but the guys do like kinda effeminate, seems like a specifically Korean style.  a bar for Lommaren |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Nov 15, 2019 21:31:04 GMT -5
Nice sunset today. Took this at 3:48pm  |
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Post by urania93 on Nov 16, 2019 15:30:19 GMT -5
Today I'm finally home in hours at which the sun is still up, and surprisingly the snow felt on Thursday night is still around, so I managed to take some better pictures than the ones in the snow thread (from here onward). At some point I think that I wrote that "snow now would have been weird because the place still looks quite green", and it is more or less visible also in these pictures I think.  ^ sunniest moment of the day  ^ foliage more evident just above the village  ^ perplexed feline + (somehow) greenish grass in the path we made in the snow  ^ at the end he preferred to control the situation from a more elevated spot. |
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Post by Hiromant on Nov 17, 2019 8:19:44 GMT -5
Broad daylight at 3 PM. The last gasp of fall, winter is coming in a week.  |
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Post by urania93 on Nov 17, 2019 10:56:48 GMT -5
Today we took the car to see how much snow there was higher on the mountain, here there are some pictures |
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Post by Ariete on Nov 20, 2019 9:17:37 GMT -5
PROOF that Turku is subtropique! Look at this birch, it's almost December and this specimen still have clearly GREEN leaves. It's also cut so that it resembles a palm tree, something which suits well SUBTROPIQUE Turku!
Meanwhile in Umea:
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Post by nei on Nov 21, 2019 22:29:28 GMT -5
went to the eastern point of Long Island last Sunday; 120 miles east of me; living on the west edge of Long Island. Thought the offshore nor'easter made it the perfect time.Took the train with my bicycle to East Hampton, NY and then biked eastwards. Passed by some fancy estates, roads were quiet except for the state highway but a lot of the roads were dull. Passed by some very fancy homes and estates  Stormy skies, was drizzling slightly  closer to the water pine forest off a quiet road  walking dunes park. the dunes slowly move from the wind, obliterating plants in the way   pretty boring bay side  ocean side  nice wall of cloud  looks like an abstract painting more boring stretches to till got to Montauk Point; nice bluffs; did not feel like a Long Island shore, or anywhere else on the east coast I had been besides maybe Maine 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿. bluff views   getting near the end.  me. It was extremelly wind right by the shore; blowing sand. biking east to Montauk Point was extremely slow with the northeast wind (headwind) from nor'easter. Felt wild with the roaring surf, wind and sorta remote-ness   Montauk lighthouse  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Nov 21, 2019 23:50:56 GMT -5
^yeah looks vaguely similar to PEI or NS. PEI is the land of sand dunes. nei |
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