[rheavn]

For any one looking for places to go in your Newell consider a Fall trip to the Ozark Mountains. The color this year has been spectacular. Best I've seen other than in Maine, Vermont & New Hampshire, but a lot closer for most. The Ozarks extend from s/w Missouri into the northwestern part of Arkansas. Nice thing about the Ozarks is the temperatures are normally in the 70s this time of year. Pictures really don't do it justice.

[encantotom]

Steve,

It looks spectacular. I wish i was there hanging out with you in the barn.

tom

[prairieschooner]

A few years back (more than a decade) we were in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire in early October. Man the colors were spectacular. Before that I had no idea of the beauty that nature gives in the fall, being from California. I went back 2 weeks later, the place looked barren and the pipes were freezing! Short lived but well worth seeing at least once in your lifetime.
PS That barn looks great and the view from it is great, you are a lucky man.

[encantotom]

I used to go to boston once a month for quite a few years. i would sometimes take darlene or a kid and we would go out for the weekend. i loved fresh apple cider in the fall with the fall leaves....

tom

[Flick]

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but for Tom and Steve being from what is essentially a one to two season part of the country let me just say this. Steve is correct in that it does not last long, but there are two things you can count in when the colors come. 1. Someone has to rake up all those pretty colors off the yard. 2. Shortly after you get them cleaned up you had better get used to the color white and wearing layers of clothes.

Truly sometimes beauty is in fact in the eye of the beholder. For the others it can be a harbinger of things to come...that are cold!

I hate winter.

[prairieschooner]

Sorry Flick, that is "leaping to conclusions". I live in a cabin up in the San Jacinto Mountains and in the San Bernadino National Forest. We have all 4 seasons up here since we are above 6,200'. We do have the Fall colors but not as vivid as what I saw when in Maine that year. Since most of the Trees up here are Pine, Douglas Fir and Cedar it is basically the Oaks that drop their leaves.
       
These were taken at the first snow one year. And yes this is why we own a Newell.

[Flick]

I feel your pain Steve.

[prairieschooner]

No pain just nature. That is why I found the Colors in New England so Vivid and Wonderful. Nature is Wondrous!