Foliage Season in 2017
Bob Jensen at Trinity University 

High winds and driving rain took down a million trees in these mountains.
Our power is still out after five days, but this morning our Internet came back.
My propane generator expensively powers our cottage when the grid goes dead.

 

October 2017 was the warmest October on record for the White Mountain Region of New Hampshire.
As a result the color season probably should not have been as good as it turned out.
It was also very dry following a relatively cool and wet summer.
But in the last days of October we're having heavy rains and high winds that gratefully are stripping the leaves off the trees.
We don't want any leaves left on the trees before the blizzards arrive.

This is an unretouched view of three mountain ranges (Kinsman, Twin, and Presidential) that can be seen our cottage
Brightness of the colors varies with position of the sun.
The hemostat is hanging from the string pulling a ceiling fan switch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every sky view at dawn changes not only day to day but minute-to-minute
I don't think jets from the Vermont pilot training base made the particular swirls below
It was just a combination of clouds and the sun at dawn

 

 

There's a big old maple tree near the studio that now is used mostly for storage of books, papers, and pictures

 

 

 

 

The opening on the left of the birch trees leads to our wildflower field that's now mowed and laying dormant for the inter

 

I did not retouch the photograph below taken at sunrise from our back deck

 

 

 

This is the golf course behind our yard

 

 

 

To the south of our cottage is young small-leaf maple tree alongside our driveway

 

 

I thought it might be of interest to show the varying views of this tree as seen from my desk over the weeks of foliage season
I took these shots from my desk over the course of several weeks

 

At dawn the leaves appear more red

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a heavy rain I took pictures of this very unusual vertical rainbow north of my desk

 

 

The rainbow below appeared a few years back

 

Mt. Washington looms in the distance (28 miles)

 

 

 

Foliage

Set 12 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set21/FoliageSet12.htm   

Set 11 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set20/FoliageSet11.htm 

Set 10 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/Set19/FoliageSet10.htm 

Set 9 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/Set18/FoliageSet09.htm

Set 8 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs--- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/Set17/FoliageSet08.htm  

Set 7 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/Set16/FoliageSet07.htm   

Set 6 (2013)  Foliage Photographs Featuring Ben Plummer's Visit
to New Hampshire (2009) and Zimbabwe (2013)
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/Set16/FoliageSet06Plummer.htm  

Set 5 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs (2013) --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/Set15/FoliageSet05.htm  

Set 4 of My Favorite Foliage Photographs (2012) --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set14/FoliageSet03.htm

Set 3 --- www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set03/FoliageSet03.htm

Set 2 --- http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/Set02/FoliageSet02.htm 

Set 1 --- http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Foliage/FoliageFavorites.htm 

Wes Lavin's 2016 Autumn Foliage Part 1
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2016Sept/2016FoliagePart1.htm

Wes Lavin's Autumn Foliage Photographs:  Part 2
http://cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Lavin/2016Oct/2016FoliagePart2.htm

 

Autumn --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2008/tidbits080925.htm 
Also see   http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2009/tidbits090924.htm 
Also see   http://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2009/tidbits091005.htm 

Golf Course (First Nine-Hole Golf Course in New Hampshire)

Set 1 --- www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/GolfCourse/GolfCourseSet01.htm

Hiking Trails

Set 1 of My Favorite Hiking Trails in the White Mountains
Cannon Mountain Rim Trail, Flume Gorge, Bridal Falls, Lost River Gorge and Caves, and the Livermore, NH Ghost Town
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set01/HikingTrailsSet01.htm

Set 2 of My Favorite Hiking Trails in the White Mountains
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set02/HikingTrailsSet02.htm

Set 2 of the Flume Gorge in Franconia Notch State Park
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Flume/Set02/FlumeGorgeSet02.htm  

 

 

 

More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

 

Blogs of White Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691

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 White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/

On May 14, 2006 I retired from Trinity University after a long and wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm

Bob Jensen's Blogs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

 

Our address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's Green Mountains to the West

 

 

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/