Beautiful Fall foilage of Atlanta on google maps.. (Carlton, Carl: floor, buses)

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by johnatl

I hope this works, as I have never attempted to post a photo here before.

I took these yesterday in my neighborhood. These show a little bit of Fall color. I would guess we are 2-3 weeks away from peak color in Atlanta, but the rains today seem to be knocking all the leaves off the trees before they can really show their magic.

Anyway, enjoy.

Great pics!

This Fall has been amazing so far and it's just starting. I'm hoping I can get up to Stone Mountain next weekend and take some panoramic shots of the city from the top. Nothing can been rolling hills and forests of North Georgia.

[johnatl]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

Great pics!

This Fall has been amazing so far and it's just starting. I'm hoping I can get up to Stone Mountain next weekend and take some panoramic shots of the city from the top. Nothing can been rolling hills and forests of North Georgia.

Thanks, waronxmas!

I totally agree with you. I know I've said it before, but I consider us to be very fortunate to live in such a beautiful area of the Country.

[MJay]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

Great pics!

This Fall has been amazing so far and it's just starting. I'm hoping I can get up to Stone Mountain next weekend and take some panoramic shots of the city from the top. Nothing can been rolling hills and forests of North Georgia.

That would be awesome. Can't wait to see you posting them here!

[atlantagreg30127]

Some of the pics in Google Maps are actually up to 2-3 years old, depending on when they started putting around the neighborhoods. You can even see variations. For instance, if you "drive" virtually North on Peachtree Road in Brookhaven approaching the MARTA station there, it's a dark, drab, cloudy Winter day and then POOF - not a cloud in the sky and sunny. They obviously stopped one day at one point and resumed another day. I know that the pics in Powder Springs makes it just about look like the Apocalypse - dark, cloudy, drizzly, Winter. Ugh. Doesn't help if people are looking around for neighborhoods to house hunt in.

If you zoom in enough on Google Maps I think somehow sometimes thumbnails of pics show up and you can click on them and view those pics. Those are submitted by viewers and can be updated and new, but when you click them you area actually diverted to a site called "Panoramio" - a photo site that works with Google, but it's not the same as their "street view" stuff.

[beckycat]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

Great pics!

This Fall has been amazing so far and it's just starting. I'm hoping I can get up to Stone Mountain next weekend and take some panoramic shots of the city from the top. Nothing can been rolling hills and forests of North Georgia.

When do you think the leaves should be at peak at Stone Mountain?

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by beckycat

When do you think the leaves should be at peak at Stone Mountain?

It's looking like the foliage will peak all across the city this week and into next.

You should be able to get great views though at the summit from now until probably around thanks giving. It's going to a long Autumn this year

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Anyone view Google Maps for Atlanta?

Atlanta looks particularly beautiful...I guess they timed it just right with the Fall foilage on the ground.

The original Google Street View pics of our area in the western suburbs were all taken on a rainy day in the wintertime, so the non-evergreen trees were all dark and bare and I thought the whole area looked gloomy.

Here are some views of my immediate area in southeastern Cobb County thanks to Google:

East/West Connector between Concord and Fontaine (Covered Bridge District)

Cooper Lake Road south of E/W Connector and just south of Civitania Road

Woodland Brook Drive just south of Vinings in Cobb County

Cooper Lake Road north of E/W Connector near Laurel Lake

[NihonKitty]

Originally Posted by johnatl

NihonKitty - The third pic is dedicated to you - I know how much you love Fall color, and I also know you don't get too much in Orlando!

Wow thanks, take some pics this week Its sunny and should be alot of color now

[ericsonga]

I think the areas around Druid Hills, Lake Clair, and even just south by Oak Grove had their pictures taken for Google maps in the fall. That's what the op was talking about.

atlanta, ga - Google Maps

[Saintmarks]

One advantage of pictures taken in the winter is that one gets a better view of the lay of the land with the foliage down. In some areas it looks like a green curtain is pulled across a piece of property in summer viewing. Prettier for a picture but if you want to get an idea of the contour of the land or what may lie more than a few feet into a property, winter viewing is more revealing.

It does help if the day is sunny. The dark gloominess in winter doesn't do any place justice in photos.