The mountains of East Tennessee, especially the nearby Smokies attract color seeking tourists from all over. Unfortunately there hasn't been much color this fall.
So these were from two years ago. My wife and I have intended to go up in the higher ground to take some scenic pics for a couple weeks but looks like we need to wait a few days.
All pictures were taken right here on our property except for the river which is about half an hour away.
Not mine but my wife sent me these from Zion about 7 hours ago. Might not be exactly autumn pics. but they are from autumn.
BT
Great pics, Big Tim. l've been to Zion National Park going on 40 years ago.
This isn't a fall picture, but was taken from my sister-in-law's front yard a couple months ago. Walden Ridge in background. The pond is a little over half an acre and 18' in the deepest spot. 7 or 8 minute walk through the woods from our place.
Wrong moose LOL !!
The right pic this time
A different part of BC. A great place for deer.
First Fall colors around the Cabin is the wife's mantle display that she changes every 3 months for the seasons.
Second is the walnut, apple, and oak trees starting to turn golden and red.
Third is the 25 cords left of split wood tarped and ready for folks to pick it up and use it -- free!
Fourth is the upper hallway outside the inside shop stacked and lined with reels ready for Winter service, restoration, and repairs.
Here is about 250 pounds of Penns, plus another 275 DAM Quicks in the shop, and another 475 Mitchells, plus assorted ABUs, Cardinals, Shimanos, etc.
This doesn't count around 475 old complete vintage reels that will be used for art deco cabin lamp bases.
Took around 2200 spools out of the upper inside shop to the outside shop in order to have room for these.
It is more important to have these at hand to build out promised reels for friends -- and the spools can be easily sourced even if it is snowing -- just by going out to the other shop or storage container.
Easing up a little on the wood cutting -- maybe just a couple of hours a day. Transitioning to working on reels the rest of the day to get caught up on client repairs, builds, and services.
Appreciate everyone's patience.
Like Jonathan told us, this tree mortality deal will take 3 years out of our life -- 2 down, 1 to go.
It is indeed Autumn...
We are planning a trip with the camper and boat over to the Eastern side of the Sierras this month, hopefully.
If that happens, we will go over through Sonora Pass, so we can get some pics of the Miles of up-canyon Aspens as they turn golden.
Best,
Fred
Festus, are you familiar with an East Tennessee place called Albright Mountain?
I've heard of Albright Grove up in the Smokies, may be the same mountain.
Festus, your neighborhood looks like nice country. Only been to Tenn. once, and that was near Fort Donelson.
Big Tim, a couple of those Zion pics look more like Bryce Canyon, but I ain't been out there for quite few years, so I could be wrong. Beautiful wherever they are.
Frank
Seattle Fall Colors
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Quote from: festus on October 18, 2017, 12:26:17 AM
I've heard of Albright Grove up in the Smokies, may be the same mountain.
My Gr Gr Grandpappys little brother founded that place. He operated the only grist mill in a hundred miles. charged folks 10% to grind their grain. to bad its no longer in the family.
Interesting. There are a few high elevation streams in that area that hold native brook trout. Rainbow trout aren't native to Tennessee, but have been stocked numerous places. Most likely that grist mill was situated on a trout stream.
These Mexican Sunflowers popped up voluntarily among the spent tomato patch. Most likely birds scattered the seeds.
Festus, those Mex Sunflowers are a big hit here too--Monarch butterflies love 'em.
Couple fall pics: one is some sumac in a garden we have & other is Ginneala maples in our backyard (a little past their peak & I'll have to get that purple martin house down for winter).
Gonna try & wet a line tomorrrow; we'll see what the trees look like.
Happy Fall Y'All.
Frank
You guys 'er makin me homesick for the main land. Favorites: Aspens in the Rockies and Dogwoods in Oregon. In the sub-tropics our foliage(as well as tides, temps., daylight length, water temps.) don't change to much.
Here's a pic. of my pet chicken(a jungle cock sub-species) "kutchi". Already posted pics. on Fred's Sunset thread, but this's as close as I can come here to Fall colors.
Look hard and you may be able to decipher some neat MN fall landscape color in the background of some of these photos but the subject in the forefront of most of them is what I love about fall (great fishing).
My wife and best friend, Bonnie, with her (PB) 10# northern.
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Bonnie with, at the time, her (PB) 4# smallmouth, her later (PB) 5# smallmouth and me with a 4.5# smallmouth.
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A few a the really nice walleyes we caught during the trip.
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:o And a visiting neighbor. ???
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North Central MN is beautiful in late September thru mid October......the colors and the fishing! ;D
This is actually a winter photograph, but nevertheless colorful.
I took the pic a couple years ago, and a friend enhanced it in the Lightroom photo editing software.
At one time this was a big hole in the ground from a strip mined coal quarry. After it filled with water, it was stocked with largemouth bass, bluegill, redear, fathead minnows, and grass carp. I've caught my share of fish from this pond but always released them.
Our abandoned chicken lot that we removed the fence from years ago.
Quote from: Midway Tommy on October 19, 2017, 05:47:31 PM
Look hard and you may be able to decipher some neat MN fall landscape color in the background of some of these photos...
North Central MN is beautiful in late September thru mid October......the colors and the fishing! ;D
What lakes were you fishing?
I grew up in MN, and have fished quiet a few if them. Thanks for sharing! I miss fall in MN.
John
Quote from: Tightlines666 on October 21, 2017, 05:14:06 PM
Quote from: Midway Tommy on October 19, 2017, 05:47:31 PM
Look hard and you may be able to decipher some neat MN fall landscape color in the background of some of these photos...
North Central MN is beautiful in late September thru mid October......the colors and the fishing! ;D
What lakes were you fishing?
I grew up in MN, and have fished quiet a few if them. Thanks for sharing! I miss fall in MN.
John
The Woman Lake Chain just south of Leech. I love that general triangular area, Brainerd to Bemidji to Grand Rapids!
Quote from: Midway Tommy on October 22, 2017, 03:36:10 AM
Quote from: Tightlines666 on October 21, 2017, 05:14:06 PM
Quote from: Midway Tommy on October 19, 2017, 05:47:31 PM
Look hard and you may be able to decipher some neat MN fall landscape color in the background of some of these photos...
North Central MN is beautiful in late September thru mid October......the colors and the fishing! ;D
What lakes were you fishing?
I grew up in MN, and have fished quiet a few if them. Thanks for sharing! I miss fall in MN.
John
The Woman Lake Chain just south of Leech. I love that general triangular area, Brainerd to Bemidji to Grand Rapids!
I almost forgot how many great bodies of water MN has available to explore. Leach, Winne, Gull, Pelican, Whitefish, Mile Lacs, Red Lakes, Lake of the woods.. options are nearly endless.
We had our annual late winter, and/or late summer trips to lake of the woods. We would go up to bigger water with groups of guys several times a year. A close friend of my dad's had a cabin on Bay Lake we would fish several times a year, I had a boat on Minnetinks thst I fished many days, along with other lakes around the area. Then I would scour the MNDNR lake reports, and bath maps to go try to fish a different small lake every few weeks. I had another friend with a cabin up in Alex, and one with a cabin in Detroit Lakes, so I explored many of the lakes in these areas. Also had a girlfriend with a house on tye lake in Bemiji during college. Also, explored the rivers along the North Shore of Lake Superior when attending UMD. We also fished the great lakes for Salmon, and made annual trips to Port Eads, LA for offshore saltwater fishing. Minnesota has to be one of the greatest states in terms of the diversity of lakes available to anglers. A great place to grow up.
Keep sharing the fishing pics.
John
There are some nice lakes around Alexandria (MN) that are still mostly undeveloped, and that are among my favorites. I'm thinking Fish Lake (southwest of Parkers Prairie), Indian Lake (southwest of Leaf Valley) and Lake Mina (just west of Alexandria), to name a few. I wish I could fish Mina more often; a fair sized lake and has most fish species that are available in that area, including a few muskies.
Frank
All this talk about beautiful lakes and no photos in the photo gallery. No photos, no such lakes. ::) ;D ;D
Quote from: RowdyW on October 23, 2017, 02:29:15 AM
All this talk about beautiful lakes and no photos in the photo gallery. No photos, no such lakes. ::) ;D ;D
Well here you go. First pic is a sunriser from the cabin and the second is the same place on October 15, 2009. My boat on the right and my dad's on the left. It was one cold week of fishing that year with a high of 44 F that whole week. We had snow 3 times and 3" the day of the pic. We went to the Casino a lot that year! ::)
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We intended to go fishing for smallmouth and redeyes today, but surprisingly it had rained more than I expected in the other end of the county. All I had was ultralight tackle, some jigs, spinners, and spoons, all 1/4 oz or less. Water was too muddy and current too swift for that, should have taken some heavyweight tackle and fished for catfish. ::) Nevertheless, glad I took a camera.
More from yesterday.
Had a few nice pictures of fall colors in our yard and deleted them about when this post came? Butt our seasons come early . So I'm collecting some more colors to send. ;)
I see the frost crystals on those plants.....
My wife took these two pics yesterday, she's been a photographer many years before I started.
This was taken about a mile from our house. Canadian geese feasting on the last of the easy green stuff. Soon they will be gone too!
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That goose is frozen stiff!
This is my front yard view, sometimes its quite colorful, I love the different seasons. Worth getting up ;) for!
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And trying again from a phone.
Maybe because of my reception? This is ano pik post. Call me crazy?
The last picture is a picture of an Oregon trail historic crossing of the Sandy river between now Portland and Mt Hood. The settlers in the early days had to cross several rivers, and many many other trials to reach the Promised Land. Many of us are immigrants in one way or another..... I love this land..... Dont you? Just wanted to paint a picture....
Anyway I took a lot of cell piks butt cant send much from the phone..... Butt the previous one was .....Sooo maybe theres hope.... ???
Beautiful pics!
Sal
Try this!?
Artsy... Dominick
Hey Buddy. ;) its artsy, cause you know art? ??? I,ve beentrying for a week or more to send some fall pictures from my phone. Thats just where they are. I love you all for waiting to see an alaskan geek!!!!! ;D
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Notice the colors changing in this guys face. White to palle white, then pinkish, then kinda red, then back to kinda oh my gosh just shoot the picture color of fall! Just in fun of coarse. ;)
:D :D...good pic Gary, I do see the colors.
Sal
Well it is an autumn picture. ::) Dominick
Back to fall colors, from green of the spring, near the burbling brook to the fire season in crimsons.
Just say in Donnie's face was not crimson, just fall like! Now for the lighter shades!
A couple more pictures.
Quote from: Midway Tommy on October 19, 2017, 05:47:31 PM
Look hard and you may be able to decipher some neat MN fall landscape color in the background of some of these photos but the subject in the forefront of most of them is what I love about fall (great fishing).
My wife and best friend, Bonnie, with her (PB) 10# northern.
(http://alantani.com/gallery/22/17004_19_10_17_9_59_23_221701181.jpeg)
Bonnie with, at the time, her (PB) 4# smallmouth, her later (PB) 5# smallmouth and me with a 4.5# smallmouth.
(http://alantani.com/gallery/22/17004_19_10_17_9_59_11_221661942.jpeg)
(http://alantani.com/gallery/22/17004_19_10_17_9_59_19_221681129.jpeg)
(http://alantani.com/gallery/22/17004_19_10_17_10_01_06_221722353.jpeg)
A few a the really nice walleyes we caught during the trip.
(http://alantani.com/gallery/22/17004_19_10_17_10_38_41_22175533.jpeg)
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(http://alantani.com/gallery/22/17004_19_10_17_9_59_17_221672067.jpeg)
:o And a visiting neighbor. ???
(http://alantani.com/gallery/22/17004_19_10_17_10_01_32_2217491.jpeg)
North Central MN is beautiful in late September thru mid October......the colors and the fishing! ;D
Nice pics Tom, I missed these earlier.
Thanks for sharing.
Sal
Gary, Dominick face shows a better crimson color, could have been the Zin :-\
In east Tenn., they have set up a viewing apparatus at a couple of spots where color-blind folks can see the fall colors. Several people overcome with emotion seeing the colors for the first time ever. Nice touch by the folks in that area to set this up.
Frank
Quote from: happyhooker on November 04, 2017, 09:45:19 PM
In east Tenn., they have set up a viewing apparatus at a couple of spots where color-blind folks can see the fall colors. Several people overcome with emotion seeing the colors for the first time ever. Nice touch by the folks in that area to set this up.
Frank
Frank, I was interested in this comment, so I googled it. It's pretty amazing. Thanks for the info. Dominick
Gary, my family used to live in Sandy Oregon, crossed that river many times. Also spent a lot of time hound hunting the backside of Hood. Some beautiful country.
Hey Dave; its a small world sometimes. :) The Sandy river has given me a few steelhead back in the day. We lived south of there a little ways south and east of there and would fish steelhead in the Sandy river as well as the Clackamas river. We had a drift boat and it got us in lots of adventures. The town we lived in was and old logging/sawmill town of the boom eras like so many. Not much of a town really but way bigger than where we migrated to in Alaska. The fall colors can be great around there especially from Mt Hood to Hood River on the Columbia, When I get reception...... ;)
Quote from: happyhooker on November 04, 2017, 09:45:19 PM
In east Tenn., they have set up a viewing apparatus at a couple of spots where color-blind folks can see the fall colors. Several people overcome with emotion seeing the colors for the first time ever. Nice touch by the folks in that area to set this up.
Frank
That's at Ober Gatlinburg about 1-1/2 hour drive from here.
Here's an old logging road behind our house.
....my favorite autumn pictures come from the early morning runs to the fishing grounds.
Wow.
Those that wait till daylight to launch don't know what they're missing. Amazing sunrises are common in puget sound in mid Sept to mid Oct
Nice Ted; I almost always launch well before sun up. To change tracks here are a couple of "autumn' pics from just the other day on the coast while deer hunting. Snow and minus 7 C is rare in the winter and extremely rare in Coastal BC in early November.
Some pics up toward Amish country in Middle Tennessee made last fall.
Colors are fading here in the Cumberland Mountains from all the recent rain and wind.
Our nearest trout stream was roaring yesterday.
Beautiful Tenn. country.
Frank
Mr festus, thanks for your pictures again. Can you please tell us the history of the house missing and the lone chimney and fireplace. Great history of hardworking folks I'm sure. 😉
Quote from: gstours on November 09, 2017, 04:24:25 PM
Mr festus, thanks for your pictures again. Can you please tell us the history of the house missing and the lone chimney and fireplace. Great history of hardworking folks I'm sure. 😉
The man who owned the house passed away a few years ago. He never married, worked in the coal mines and farmed his own food all his life and wanted a simple lifestyle. So he never had any electricity or city water. He told me he never married because his parents had been through a divorce, which was really looked down on back in the old days. After he passed away, a real estate agent had the house burned because it was falling in. Here is another pic of the place made during the winter of 2010.
Quote from: gstours on November 09, 2017, 04:24:25 PM
Mr festus, thanks for your pictures again. Can you please tell us the history of the house missing and the lone chimney and fireplace. Great history of hardworking folks I'm sure. 😉
The man who owned the house passed away a few years ago. He never married, worked in the coal mines and farmed his own food all his life and wanted a simple lifestyle. So he never had any electricity or city water. He told me he never married because his parents had been through a divorce, which was really looked down on back in the old days. After he passed away, a real estate agent had the house burned because it was falling in. Here is another pic of the place made during the winter of 2010.
Heres one from our backyard, with fall colors of fireweed dying down.
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It tried to rain ☔️ today .... but that's ok 👌
Thanks for telling us that tiny part of history in your area. Bricks and mortar usually will outlast our lifetime, the story is recorded but we have to find out as time marches on. Good fall pictures of you area.
These last ones were from a cell phone as I was trying to see if I could do. Butt heres more from home.
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This is our fall, then we hibernate by the wood stove and tie flies for spring! ;)
Quote from: RowdyW on October 23, 2017, 02:29:15 AM
All this talk about beautiful lakes and no photos in the photo gallery. No photos, no such lakes. ::) ;D ;D
Better late than never. Here's a pic of Indian Lake near Leaf Valley, MN. Small as far as lakes go; about 100 acres, but over 35 feet deep. Lake is up a bit; timber flooded and boat launch about 1/2 underwater. Very little development; very peaceful and you feel way away from life's hubbub. Saw 3 loons on the lake & a bald eagle circling. Even fishing OK--largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill. Not a fall picture--was there last week--but I don't get over to Indian very often. Almost no wind--unheard of in Minn.
Frank
It's odd how many posts slide right past ya...all these comments...and I still missed it! At any rate, here's a few Autumn pictures. 8)
Mike, that's some gorgeous country you got there.