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A couple of natural rim toned beauties....................
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No AT/NT debate here. Nature at her finest. Beautiful drive in the Southern Appalachians today.
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Not me, though. Thanks for the moment of Zen.
It's a timely post, actually, as my family and I are going to be visiting Asheville, NC this coming weekend and we've been wondering what the state of the fall color would be up in the mountains, and hoping the leaves hadn't all fallen yet. My daughter is psyched. We live on the GA coast almost in Florida, so we have palm trees and stuff, but don't get much fall color, as our live oaks are evergreen.
Where were those shots taken?
We only have summer and a-little-less-than-summer.
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Very nice! We don't have that down here in Florida.
We only have summer and a-little-less-than-summer.
Pretty much the same here, though it's been perfect lately.
I could almost throw a rock and hit Florida from here.
In fact, many here in my town would probably like that, with the big GA vs. FLA showdown less than a week away!
But I won't. I myself am a native Floridiot originally.
And I couldn't care less about GA-FLA weekend. We will be delighted to be heading north for the mountains while all those Bulldawg fans are headed south to take on the Gators and generally behave in a drunken and obnoxious manner.
Hmm... let's see ... stay here and deal with all those bozos at my hotel job, or go drive the Blue Ridge Parkway under colored leaves while celebrating our 16th anniversary with ladymarcovan and daughter?
That's a no-brainer decision, let me tell you!
I'll try to do one tomorrow when its daylight again.
i love it though
when nature turns on the colors to full bloom
comparison to coins... coins tarnish and lose their original color to become multicolored, leaves
lose their original green and expose the colors that have been there all along, but masked by the chlorophyll.... Cheers, RickO
Beautiful picture.... We get major fall color here in the Catskill Mountains.... Interesting
comparison to coins... coins tarnish and lose their original color to become multicolored, leaves
lose their original green and expose the colors that have been there all along, but masked by the chlorophyll.... Cheers, RickO
And doesn't it have something to do with the trees producing sugars?
So that's why tarnished coins can be so sweet!
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This was taken yesterday about 30 miles west of the Swoveland Library.
Thanks, Terry! I'll see you Saturday night at Swoveland Library for the Darkside gathering!
I think that's gonna be my my desktop wallpaper at work for the rest of the week.
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First, Gascoigne Bluff, Saint Simons Island, Georgia. Wednesday, October 28, 2015. 11:30 AM. Temperature around 70 degrees. Ahhh.
Here we are looking west over the Frederica River and the Marshes of Glynn.
As you can see, there's not much color in the leaves except green, but it is a lovely day.
For a numismatic tie-in, when snapping this picture I was standing on the exact spot where several years ago I found my first (and so far only) Shield nickel with my metal detector. It was an 1873. An 1862 dime came up a few feet from there. A few hundred yards away (where interestingly I noticed a filled-in archaeologist's trench this morning), I dug my most monetarily valuable find to date. It was a War of 1812 US Light Dragoons pewter belt plate. Quite rare and perhaps the only the second or third intact example known at the time. (The reference book on US military belt plates showed a picture of some fragments of one!) Mine was intact, but ugly as hell in my opinion, so I sold it to a militaria dealer for $1K and bought the Draped Bust dime I had hoped to dig there in the first place. This area was the site of the old Hamilton Plantation before the Civil War, and a large lumber mill shortly thereafter, when those coins were probably dropped.
For a Gascoigne Bluff detecting video see my YouTube channel (it's in "Dirty Movie #4"). But don't expect any exciting finds. That one ended up being mostly talk and scenery. The other videos might be a little more interesting.
When I got back on the mainland and home, I took a picture of the water oak in the front corner of our yard, which died this summer, so instead of shedding leaves, it is now shedding limbs. Not shown here is the dump truck load of dead brush we had to clean up from around its base last weekend. Ugh. Getting a tree surgeon to take the thing down without destroying our fence, house, or cars will cost us some money. It has already damaged my wife's car with a falling limb when there was a big thunderstorm in August.
Note the neighbor's goat at the fence. Yep, we're in the country out here, and love it.
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I like the Brunswick area.
Yeah, me too. But in a couple of days I'll be visiting y'all in my OTHER hometown in Asheville. We didn't get our NC Mountains trip this summer, so it is exciting to be going when there will be fall color, as I mentioned.