Leaf Peepers Unit ! (Johnson City, Bristol, Elizabethton: home, eat, snakes)

[jguillot]

Originally Posted by kamoshika

Some early color at Roan Mountain in Carter County.

Your photographs are excellent. Thank you for sharing them.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by Grizzlybear34

I think we need some pictures folks!

I was out shooting pics for the forum on Sunday. Not really any color, yet. That's should change fairly soon.

[LauraC]

I'd like to hear from people on the Plateau. Last year, I observed their leaves turned ahead of the leaves where I live. Driving on I-40 between Harriman and Crossville they were on fire (figuratively speaking ) and I got to Oak Ridge and they were still more yellow-green than orange towards the last week of October.

Last year, I parked in an "acorn hailstorm" the first week of November (leaves in the red-gold phase). I was by the visitor's area at Noris Dam, go out of my car, walked about 20 feet and all of a sudden the trees let loose and pelted me and my car with hundreds of acorns. I had to make a run for the car. Not funny. Sooooo, just a warning. In the first week of November, if your tires go crunch, crunch, crunch when you go to park the car in a nice area where the trees overhang the parking area, move your car or be prepared to take fire if there's a gust of wind.

[Bones]

Some of the leaves that change early have just turned brown and dropped on the plateau.....

[as3369]

Western Putnam County

[yarddawg]

Originally Posted by LauraC

I'd like to hear from people on the Plateau.

'Kay, we've got some color in the tops of the dogwoods, sourwoods and poplars as well as a few scattered leaves on the maples but that's about it. It's still mostly green. I'd snap a pic but it's rainy and foggy right now.

I go back and forth on whether or not this will be a good color year. We've definitely had enough rain, unlike the two previous years. Over 13 inches at my house in September, if that's not a record I don't want to know what the record is. But this is also a banner year for insects and fungus. I'm not sure you could find a leaf in a hundred acres that isn't peppered with holes and brown spots. Probably won't have a huge effect on bulk color from a distance but I'm into macro photography.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by yarddawg

'Kay, we've got some color in the tops of the dogwoods, sourwoods and poplars as well as a few scattered leaves on the maples but that's about it. It's still mostly green. I'd snap a pic but it's rainy and foggy right now.

I go back and forth on whether or not this will be a good color year. We've definitely had enough rain, unlike the two previous years. Over 13 inches at my house in September, if that's not a record I don't want to know what the record is. But this is also a banner year for insects and fungus. I'm not sure you could find a leaf in a hundred acres that isn't peppered with holes and brown spots. Probably won't have a huge effect on bulk color from a distance but I'm into macro photography.

I think it's going to be really good if the wind cooperates. I checked my calendar from last year and I was in Fall Creek Falls the night of October 29. The leaves were red and deep gold but along I-40 between Crossville and Harriman they were really, really spectacular on October 30.

[vacation bound]

Hey Bones, I see some color there.

Originally Posted by Bones

Some of the leaves that change early have just turned brown and dropped on the plateau.....

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by yarddawg

'Kay, we've got some color in the tops of the dogwoods, sourwoods and poplars as well as a few scattered leaves on the maples but that's about it. It's still mostly green. I'd snap a pic but it's rainy and foggy right now.

I go back and forth on whether or not this will be a good color year. We've definitely had enough rain, unlike the two previous years. Over 13 inches at my house in September, if that's not a record I don't want to know what the record is. But this is also a banner year for insects and fungus. I'm not sure you could find a leaf in a hundred acres that isn't peppered with holes and brown spots. Probably won't have a huge effect on bulk color from a distance but I'm into macro photography.

Same problem over here in Knoxville. My garden was a disaster, this year.

By the way, LauraC, your nut hailstorm sounds like my yard. Sometimes the squirrels pelt us with empty shells!

[Bones]

Originally Posted by vacation bound

Hey Bones, I see some color there.

It gets better every day........