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  1. I’m with you, Jeff. I love to discover and photograph abandoned or long forgotten places, buildings, etc. Especially old outbuildings or houses (which I refer to as “ghost houses”). It makes the imagination run wild with what life must have been like there back when it was inhabited. Thanks for sharing this!

    • I think this sort of thing resonates with most of my readers and I try to show folks what can happen if you get out of the car to explore. Or even get out of the car, go into the general store and talk to the people there. Most times the people there are happy to tell visitors about the little known places that make their town special…

  2. I’m with you, Jeff. I love to discover and photograph abandoned or long forgotten places, buildings, etc. Especially old outbuildings or houses (which I refer to as “ghost houses”). It makes the imagination run wild with what life must have been like there back when it was inhabited. Thanks for sharing this!

    • I think this sort of thing resonates with most of my readers and I try to show folks what can happen if you get out of the car to explore. Or even get out of the car, go into the general store and talk to the people there. Most times the people there are happy to tell visitors about the little known places that make their town special…

  3. I see what you are talking about in Forgotten Places. To take a picture of what was and now what is makes one think about what it was in its grandeur. The charm and often the mystery of such places in the photo leave my mind wondering in thoughts of the unknown. My husband has followed you for the past few years and now I am too as we just booked airline tickets from Texas to see the beautiful fall foliage you show in your photography and write about. Your videos bring this to life making us want to go and see the beauty of New England. We read Yankee Magazine which too is full of travel ideas in New England. We plan to arrive for two weeks on October 13, 2021. Hopefully ,To just missing the Columbus Day crowds. First to Woodstock, Stowe and Burlington, then across Hwy 112 , the Kancamagus Hwy to Conway. Acadia and Bar Harbor next, down the coast of Maine to Rockport area. Finally to Newport Rhode Island, Narragansett and Mystic before heading back to Dallas, TX. Your photographs, writings and videos certainly will be helpful as we travel celebrating our 55 years of marriage with this trip. We hope the dates we picked will be a good time for foliage viewing and photography. Thank you, for all the time and travels you have done to give us a great amount of information for our trips as well as reading at home.

    • Well, the dates seem logical to me at this point. We had in 2020 a first in a long time “early” fall color show. Could it happen again? I don’t know but your choices are sound for most years I’ve seen. The only possible slow-down in the colors maybe along the shorelines where the colors arrive last. Sometimes the colors don’t show till November but you will see color during the last week or two of Oct. Remember the fall colors don’t go from 0-60 in 2.4 seconds… They go from green to Peak in 1-2 weeks in any spot you stand.
      So where ever you stand if it’s not perfect (*Note, it rarely is) then get back in the car and try someplace else. In 2020 and around 25 October I expected to find really good color in Connecticut, but we got nothing, so we drove up into Massachusetts and still found better color up there rather than in CT… And this started out as an “Early fall color year” but even though it started early it didn’t continue that way… Talk about confusing…

  4. I see what you are talking about in Forgotten Places. To take a picture of what was and now what is makes one think about what it was in its grandeur. The charm and often the mystery of such places in the photo leave my mind wondering in thoughts of the unknown. My husband has followed you for the past few years and now I am too as we just booked airline tickets from Texas to see the beautiful fall foliage you show in your photography and write about. Your videos bring this to life making us want to go and see the beauty of New England. We read Yankee Magazine which too is full of travel ideas in New England. We plan to arrive for two weeks on October 13, 2021. Hopefully ,To just missing the Columbus Day crowds. First to Woodstock, Stowe and Burlington, then across Hwy 112 , the Kancamagus Hwy to Conway. Acadia and Bar Harbor next, down the coast of Maine to Rockport area. Finally to Newport Rhode Island, Narragansett and Mystic before heading back to Dallas, TX. Your photographs, writings and videos certainly will be helpful as we travel celebrating our 55 years of marriage with this trip. We hope the dates we picked will be a good time for foliage viewing and photography. Thank you, for all the time and travels you have done to give us a great amount of information for our trips as well as reading at home.

    • Well, the dates seem logical to me at this point. We had in 2020 a first in a long time “early” fall color show. Could it happen again? I don’t know but your choices are sound for most years I’ve seen. The only possible slow-down in the colors maybe along the shorelines where the colors arrive last. Sometimes the colors don’t show till November but you will see color during the last week or two of Oct. Remember the fall colors don’t go from 0-60 in 2.4 seconds… They go from green to Peak in 1-2 weeks in any spot you stand.
      So where ever you stand if it’s not perfect (*Note, it rarely is) then get back in the car and try someplace else. In 2020 and around 25 October I expected to find really good color in Connecticut, but we got nothing, so we drove up into Massachusetts and still found better color up there rather than in CT… And this started out as an “Early fall color year” but even though it started early it didn’t continue that way… Talk about confusing…

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