Very interesting, SusanJane! Like the snakes, most of us have brighter
colors when we are free :)
I'd love to see the Maine Autumn thru your eyes. I cannot believe the
color differences going eastward for Autumn.........it is one of the
lovely things about moving away from the Left Coast, tho there is so much
beauty there as well. Things are just dingier all up and down CA
compared to the eastern deciduous forests.
We are in a very severe drought in our forest this year - scarey, as
people back here do not really have good fire danger awareness, and we
have at least 6 fires burning in the state right now due to ignorant
behavior. In CA, we are raised to be fire paranoid and aware. Here, in
what has been more like a rain forest, folk are fairly clueless. The
dryness has made the fall colors much more dim, and the 200 shades of
green are now more like california than kentuck.