Fall Foliage

404Error · 10-02-2004, 04:37 AM

Fall foliage season is fast approching here in New England, the trees are just starting to change colors. New England is a favorite haven for leaf peepers in the fall, people from all over come here by the busload to check out the foliage. I'm looking forward to getting some good pictures this year with the new camera. I took these few the other day of the beginings of what looks like a promising crop of colors. Anybody got pictures of foliage in your neck of the woods please post them!

404Error · 10-02-2004, 04:42 AM

Orange and yellow seem to be some of the first colors to appear.

tw · 10-02-2004, 10:12 AM

Fall - when the leaves die and we all call that pretty. No wonder "freak events" such as Halloween and Texas Chain Saw murders are celebrated during the fall.

elSicomoro · 10-02-2004, 10:26 AM

The leaves are starting to change here in Philadelphia. Our new neighborhood has lots of trees, and we get a nice view of them from 7 stories up. Plus we're next to a large park. Might have to find my camera and film over the weekend.

Trilby · 10-02-2004, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by tw

Fall - when the leaves die and we all call that pretty. No wonder "freak events" such as Halloween and Texas Chain Saw murders are celebrated during the fall.

I like the Season of Death. Halloween is the best holiday we have.

404--once again, beeeeeee-Utiful pics. I love the one with the baby spider!

Elspode · 10-02-2004, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tw

Fall - when the leaves die and we all call that pretty. No wonder "freak events" such as Halloween and Texas Chain Saw murders are celebrated during the fall.

Ever wonder why Christmas (you know, the birth of Jesus?) is celebrated in Winter? It is because The Church (tm) chose to place the event in conjunction with Yule, the traditional celebration of Pagan peoples held at the Winter Solstice. In many Pagan belief systems, that day is the day when the Sun King is reborn; when the sun begins to return to the Northern Hemisphere and the days start to get longer.

As luck would have it, the Sun King dies at Halloween (properly known as Samhain) and begins his journey through the underworld. Samhain is the Pagan New Year, and the highest of our Sabbats.

Summary? Your characterization of Halloween in equivalence with "freak events" like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reveals a certain bias which some may find distasteful, but your association of Samhain with death is entirely correct. However, not all cultures see death as an ending. Some see it as part of an ongoing, greater cycle, like that of the changing position of the sun in the sky and the symbolic Sun King's life cycle. These are events that are celebrated, and not considered to be any more freakish than the changing of the seasons.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-02-2004, 08:54 PM

C'mon Els, I saw a photograph from the private album of Mary's ob/gyn. The picture clearly showed a calander on the wall of the stable that said December 25th.

Clodfobble · 10-02-2004, 08:59 PM

C'mon Els, I saw a photograph from the private album of Mary's ob/gyn.

I know that guy! He's a total ass.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-02-2004, 09:10 PM

NO, no, you're thinking of her proctologist.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-05-2004, 08:44 PM

Pike's Peak stream. I wish I'd taken it.

Elspode · 10-05-2004, 09:55 PM

Where would you have put it? And wouldn't it have gotten your trunk all wet?

xoxoxoBruce · 10-06-2004, 03:48 AM

No silly, you tie it on the fender. It's illegal to put it in the trunk. :p

Pie · 10-06-2004, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Pike's Peak stream. I wish I'd taken it.

Do you have a link to a larger version? I'd love to use that as a background. Thanks!
- Pie

footfootfoot · 10-06-2004, 06:50 PM

Awright,
Here are the autumn colors inspired by a couple of Sam Smiths and a Paulaner Salvator or two.

They are perhaps more microscopic than macroscopic, but look deeply within yourselves grasshoppers, and well, you know the drill...

Cheers!
BEER, it's what's for dinner! :p

xoxoxoBruce · 10-06-2004, 06:50 PM

Try here Pie.

10-02-2004, 04:37 AM	#1
404Error Lecturer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT USA Posts: 826	Fall Foliage Fall foliage season is fast approching here in New England, the trees are just starting to change colors. New England is a favorite haven for leaf peepers in the fall, people from all over come here by the busload to check out the foliage. I'm looking forward to getting some good pictures this year with the new camera. I took these few the other day of the beginings of what looks like a promising crop of colors. Anybody got pictures of foliage in your neck of the woods please post them! Attached Images __________________ "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~

10-02-2004, 04:42 AM	#2
404Error Lecturer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT USA Posts: 826	Orange and yellow seem to be some of the first colors to appear. Attached Images __________________ "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~

10-02-2004, 08:54 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	C'mon Els, I saw a photograph from the private album of Mary's ob/gyn. The picture clearly showed a calander on the wall of the stable that said December 25th. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-02-2004, 09:10 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	NO, no, you're thinking of her proctologist. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-05-2004, 08:44 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Pike's Peak stream. I wish I'd taken it. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:59 PM.

10-02-2004, 10:12 AM	#3
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Fall - when the leaves die and we all call that pretty. No wonder "freak events" such as Halloween and Texas Chain Saw murders are celebrated during the fall.

10-02-2004, 10:26 AM	#4
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	The leaves are starting to change here in Philadelphia. Our new neighborhood has lots of trees, and we get a nice view of them from 7 stories up. Plus we're next to a large park. Might have to find my camera and film over the weekend.

10-02-2004, 08:59 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	C'mon Els, I saw a photograph from the private album of Mary's ob/gyn. I know that guy! He's a total ass.

10-05-2004, 09:55 PM	#11
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Where would you have put it? And wouldn't it have gotten your trunk all wet? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

10-06-2004, 03:48 AM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No silly, you tie it on the fender. It's illegal to put it in the trunk. :p __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-06-2004, 06:50 PM	#14
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Awright, Here are the autumn colors inspired by a couple of Sam Smiths and a Paulaner Salvator or two. They are perhaps more microscopic than macroscopic, but look deeply within yourselves grasshoppers, and well, you know the drill... Cheers! BEER, it's what's for dinner! :p Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

10-06-2004, 06:50 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Try here Pie. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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