Foliage Season in 2018 (With Gliders)
Bob Jensen at Trinity University 

On most clear days in June-October gliders are towed into the sky from down the hill at the Franconia Airport with its grass runway
On a summer day in August I looked up to this while I was going to our mailbox
The tow line pulling the glider did not show up in my pictures
http://www.franconiasoaring.org/glider-rides.php

When the glider is cut loose it silently circles back and forth over the valley while moving up sometimes in an updraft
But mostly it slowly descends back to the grassy field of the Franconia Airport
I took this picture from my desk (with camera zoomed)

The 2018 autumn season, unlike the summer, has been rainy relatively warm.
This left our lawns very green against the foliage colors that finally came on the scene

The first tree that we see changed in color is the following tree that changes to red ahead of all the others I see from my desk
The first colors changing in the distant mountains are also the reds
This is a zoomed version

This is the unzoomed version a couple weeks later
The sloping hill to the right is our wonderfully colored Ore Hill with its abandoned iron mines
ttp://www.cs.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Resden/IronMine/Set01/01IronMine.htm

My birdhouses are empty and the hummingbirds are gone
But hundreds of robins stopped over on their way south
Robins stop over for a few days in the spring and fall
But they don't stay because our many crows get their babies
My guess is that they are returning from Quebec

My "sculpture" is just a haphazard piling of rocks
New Hampshire is known as "The Granite State"
Put a shovel into the ground and you hit a rock
I pulled these rocks up when I planted the spruce trees

This is my outfit for sweeping up my annual harvest of fallen leaves

More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
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Blogs of White Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
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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

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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

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