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40 degree nights followed by 70 degree days, the night air carries a hint of pinon smoke from cozy fireplaces, pumpkin ales, snow dusting the higher elevations, and the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande bosque trails change to a shimmering sea of yellow-gold..
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40 degree nights followed by 70 degree days, the night air carries a hint of pinon smoke from cozy fireplaces, pumpkin ales, snow dusting the higher elevations, and the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande bosque trails change to a shimmering sea of yellow-gold..
I love Fall.
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I'd add the smell of roasting green chile and the hot air balloons that dot the sky each morning.
I just got butterflies in my stomach reading this. I am smitten for ABQ. Will be there soon, very soon....can't wait!
Both species of tree are of the poplar genus.
I think, technically, it is popular rather than poplar, but I like poplar better.
I think of aspen trees as high altitude poplars and cottonwood as low altitude trees.
They both spread through roots after one tree is seeded.
I don't know about cottowoods, but aspen roots are really the organism and
the "tree" that you see is merely a "branch." After a fire, aspens grow right
back and love the open sky. They grow back from the intact root system.
You can see this "organism" as one entity by looking at how all the trees in
a grove turn color at the same time, but the next grove over has its own
schedule. In large old burn areas where there are aspens covering the whole
hillside, you can see one grove has dropped its' leaves, another is peaking,
another is halfway and another is still totally green. The trees can grow for
100+ years, but the root system of aspens is might live for thousands of years.
It is interesting that young aspen trees have photosynthetic bark.
They often have a greenish hue. I've noticed this with cottonwoods also.
I think, technically, it is popular rather than poplar, but I like poplar better.
They may be popular to look at but the trees are actually called poplar or technically if you wish to get close and personal they are of the genus Populus...
Aspen or cottonwood, etc are of the willow family...
Right now is an excellent time to head up to Jemez Springs and experience color overload, I was up there on Sunday for the drive, to have lunch at Laughing Lizard Cafe with a view of the bright yellow cottonwoods contrasting with the mesa cliffs, and then some easy hiking around Battleship Rock. It was just too gorgeous, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. After 22 years of visits to Jemez Springs the feeling hasn't diminished at all, in fact it just gets better.
A photographer friend of mine took this pic and posted it online. It was taken on a secret mtb trail deep in the cottonwoods along the river in Bosque Farms. It just screams Fall...
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