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Thank you for sharing, great photos and blog!
Cheers Derek. Nice to see someone has a drop of sunshine. The UK is under thick cloud cover at the moment. :D
LOVE the pictures of the forest! I live in the Mojave Desert (U.S), there is a forest to the north but it obviously does not look like this. Beautiful!
Wow. Autumn in Maine was slow coming this year and when it did, not as vibrant as usual. Great pictures.
Absolutely lovely. I was born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina, where we have some gorgeous autumn scenery. Now I live in Costa Rica, which is beautiful, but we don’t have seasonal changes, and I miss it. Thanks for posting these, they make me nostalgic!
This is beautiful, goodness me are these colors for real?
Yes Veehcirra the colours are real. I took the photos with my iPhone and published them without any enhancements at all.
They are really breathtaking!!
where I come from we don’t have seasons, it’s the same all year round …I am fascinated by the colors that are brought forth as the seasons change.
This is exactly what I was talking about on my travelling blog from V.I.P Peche last week. Unbelievably vivid and varied.
wow beautiful color nice for share