Fall foliage at Noyes Pond

by Jeff Folger

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Fall foliage at Noyes Pond

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Jeff Folger

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Photograph - Art Creation

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I try to describe to people how fall foliage happens and with a picture like this it may be easier to show them. Here we are visiting Seyon State Park in Vermont. A pair of Adirondack chairs sit waiting for you or I to walk over and sit down to enjoy the show. The first act would have us watch summer leaving the stage and the cooler days of September arrive. The opening of the 2nd Act would show us that the fall colors are all over the upper 1/3 of the hills in front of us. You see the colors move from north to south (in a normal year) and from higher elevation to lower. So as we proceed into the middle of this Second Act the color is starting to fade at the upper elevations but its turning up the color on the lower elevations at the feet of the hills. As we close Act II, we would see the color drain from the upper hills. Act III opens to the winter of our discontent which I'm borrowing from William Shakespeare's Richard the III. Here the discontent is our saddnes because the colorful New England fall colors that were so bright a few days ago are just a few late arrivals to the party. The upper hills and almost all the way to the lake's edge you see nothing but the pale branchs showing few if any leaves and the dark green of the pine trees that always maintain the colors. But! the discontent can be short lived because as we leave this play to finish out the credits, the opening curtain on Act I is just a short drive down the road to southern Vermont where the show has just begun. And so we continue to move south catching the fall colors in different different acts. You move a few miles one way and the curtain on Act I is just rising and 10 miles to the east we have the closing finale and all the leaves down. You never know what you will find until you get there and you sit and watch the play that Mother Nature has set for you and enjoy the fall colors of New England trying not to fall into discontent but to enjoy the gift your were able to see. No two autumn are th

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August 4th, 2016

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