2020 NH Fall/SH Spring Photo Thread (spoilers please!)

The bridge that will complete the fourth and final quadrant of the ring road around the city. Due to a landslide, a large pillar or pylon or whatever you call it fell into the water (not visible on the picture)

Saplings often get abnormally large leaves in the fall. I've always thought of it as trying to get the most amount of growth during the first years to be able to grow taller than the snow cover as quickly as possible. This birch sapling is the most extreme example I've ever found. You can see the normal sized birch leaves on the ground.
This one had leaves of a more similar size to rhubarb plants.


River is pretty low. Normally only a few of these rocks will jut out of the water, if any. Never seen them this extensively before.


Nice colors, though not quite at peak.


Nudist beach in the left corner.


Lots of trees, despite not being exactly yellow are still a fainter, more lime green color than during summer, although the low september sun is also a contributing factor.


Entering the arboretum



Japanese garden


For chronology's sake I'll include this shot again of us on the rocks of the rapid.


Arboretum as seen from there.


After a fika on the rocks, we headed further up along the arboretum and river.


The lighting was really nice and everything very pretty.




We had another fika. You can never have too many fikas.


Then on the way back, we went through forest part of the arboretum.



Even more beautiful lighting in the woods.


My friends found a log


And I found a wooden hammock whose purpose I honestly have no idea of. There are a bunch of them and I think they might be bridges for squirrels? But I don't know why they'd make bridges for squirrels because squirrels can jump between trees no problem.


Another view of the rapids.


Honestly, I take the same exact shots every time I'm here. I'm like a goldfish looking at the same thing over and over again, going "Wow, this is so cool" every single time.


The good thing about this is that it's very easy to compare with previous times and previous years.

For example, I can compare the foliage 2020 vs 2019 really easily and conclude that 2020 is pretty much one week ahead of 2019 (despite both August and especially September being warmer)


26th of September 2019:


19th of September 2020:


26th of September 2019:


19th of September 2020:

Entered a grove/hill right next to where I live for the first time.



Found an unusually ambitious tree fortress


And an unusually vibrant shrub/tree.


Drizzle turned into mist made of droplets large enough to stick to surfaces. At the campus:





Some striking colors by the hospital



Less striking colors by the hospital park right outside my apartment.