2022 NH Spring/SH Fall Photo Thread (Spoilers Please!)

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Trees mostly green now, you can see Long’s Peak in the background although not a great view with the clouds:


More green trees:


From today’s thunderstorm:

May 17th...started out very wet but turned into a nice day:


Some green undergrowth


Later that day it was 21C and humid on the beach


Saw a fox as well



May 15th






Mosquito manufacturing area


Creepy tree


One of the few trees to have leaves






May 14th. Didn't expect to see these kind of pines here. Looks like ponderosa but not sure on exact species.



Liked this cedar as well. Much nicer than the ones in Vancouver.




Fungus on tree


May 13th


May 11th

at 10 am, low clouds broke revealing a clear blue sky with a few puffy clouds



waterfall. never knew of it till i biked on an out of the gravel road and saw a trail by the stream it crossed



by noon, big puffy clouds



Heard thunder and dark clouds approaching, hid out in a park shelter. some close by lightning but the storm mostly swiped me. To the west in the direction I'm headed the storm looked much darker, so it was worth it to wait it out. After the storm past, I changed routes to stick on the main road; quicker to get into town and felt a little safer on a storm. Deli/ convenience storm I stopped at in Readsboro, Vermont where I could wait out any more pop-ups. Shop staff said the storm was very strong (lots of wind and lightning) and lasted 30 minutes



Kept going down the Deerfield Valley, waited a passing thundersstorm I could see on my phone's radar, for 25 minutes. A waterfall I saw after a short hike. Started raining again, but no thunder



cleared up quickly









finsihed my ride just before a very heavy long rain band from the cold front t-storm came

Climbed steadily until we came out above treeline with a good view of Bald Mountain:


Nice views opened up back to the front range:


Expansive snowy wilderness:

April 30th: Some small leaves can be seen on a bird cherry in the middle of the picture, and I'm sure that some examples of more prominent leafing could've been found if you searched in other parts of Umeå.


Firmly green looking on May the 4th.


May 6th: Saw a dog walking without a leash in the literal city square. Very odd. The owner would let it walk multiple meters away from her as well. Good doggo I suppose.


Went to the rapids and arboretum on that day. That bridge whose construction has been going on for ages due to delays resulting from damages sustained during multiple landslides, construction accidents etc. is actually seeing some significant progress since the last time I saw it. During the entire last couple years it seemed like there was literally no progress whatsoever.


Still residual winter snow on the northern side of the river.


Rapids. Surprisingly low water level and flow rate considering the snow melt along the river's drainage. No leaves on any trees besides some of the bird cherries. 



If you looked in the right spots it could appear quite green.


Most spots, not so much.


On May 9th I saw the first properly green birch outside of the city square.


Pretty much all other birches were bare at the time though. On May 13th they had started catching up however.


Still a lot of bare birches left though.


It's been a very dry spring, and while we've had a few rainy days the last couple months, they've all had pretty low precipitation totals, like the last rainy day on May 16th which saw a millimeter or two.


After rain comes sunshine, or whatever the saying is. On May 18th things had really started greening up.


And on May 19th it was definitely mostly green, with aspen the only bare native tree species left (which is a little unfortunate tbh since those are the largest trees that tend to line the edges of forests. I found a café on the top floor of the hospital building, with stunning views and remarkable prices (1.5$ for a coffee and like 4-6$ for proper subway-ish sandwhiches, which is remarkable for the fact that the cafés on the ground floor charge 3-4$ for their coffee and 5-8$ for similar sandwhiches.)


And on May 21st I went on a long walk along the river. It got to about 18'C in my part of town, but I think some areas along our walk may have reached 20'C in the more favorable spots. I'd say it was about 85% green on that day.


Someone had braided a bunch of cherries together, on multiple points along our path, which was very cute.


It felt like proper summer on that day.




Never seen so little water in the creeks and river though as far as I remember. I'm sure 2018 had less water in the creeks at some point but I didn't visit this area anytime during that year.




This spot in particular felt like it could've been 20'C while we were there. The large brown and dry field couple with the shelter from the wind that the woods give. It felt really warm.


Everywhere within 200m of the river west of the city center is so wonderful. You can be 2km from the city center and feel like you're in the country somewhere. I grew up in that part of town and it was such a magical place to grow up.


I wonder who made this sculpture, if it was just some random person or if it's some sort of commissioned art piece.


Never been in this particular spot without the planks actually being necessary. Ground was definitely still not dry though.


Creepy.


This is probably the most extravagant house in the entire city. I remember it used to be a completely ordinary house until a few years ago when someone decided to rebuild the house into something from the movie Parasite. A bit frustrating that the pathway is slightly off-center relative to the house but whatever. I didn't take more pictures of the house but it's pretty big, extremely extravagant, it's along the river, and they have a very large and "fancy" lawn on the back side.


And then finally a picture I took from my balcony just now before making this post. The trees are starting the get that deeper green tint of summer (except some birches that have brown-reddish leaves for some reason I don't really know (there hasn't been a frost this month except on May 4th when my PWS recorded -2.0'C). It also smelled like proper summer. The bird cherries have started blooming, and it was over 18.5'C already at 10:15 and 25'C on my balcony.

Looks chilly but it was 27C with a 18.5C dew:


A small lagoon or lake