Leaf Peepers Unit ! (Chattanooga, Kingsport, Oak Ridge: 2009, university, education)

[TheShadow]

Kamo - just BEAUTIFUL pics. what kind of camera do you have? I can't rep you, gotta spread it around they say.

[kamoshika]

Originally Posted by TheShadow

Kamo - just BEAUTIFUL pics. what kind of camera do you have? I can't rep you, gotta spread it around they say.

Thank you, my camera's a Canon PowerShot A570 IS.

[JEANNE61]

been noticing how SLOWLY the leaves are changing .. i see an awful lot of them falling . .i'm just hoping i don't miss 'FALL' .. after 13 yrs in fla . .this will be my First one in yrs ..

friends up in NY are saying their trees are pretty much red and gold and not much green left at all . .is it because its so warm still ???

[hiknapster]

This happened last year, too. Because of the drought a lot of leaves turn brown and just fall off. At the end of the season, last year, we did get color.

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by JEANNE61

friends up in NY are saying their trees are pretty much red and gold and not much green left at all . .is it because its so warm still ???

Its because it gets colder up there sooner overall and they are further north... perhaps a little less sunlight prevails versus the southern regions.

Some areas up there have already had a frost and freeze weeks ago, whereas we still await it. Maybe this weekend we may see our first frost?

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by JEANNE61

been noticing how SLOWLY the leaves are changing .. i see an awful lot of them falling . .i'm just hoping i don't miss 'FALL' .. after 13 yrs in fla . .this will be my First one in yrs ..

friends up in NY are saying their trees are pretty much red and gold and not much green left at all . .is it because its so warm still ???

Follow the Fall foliage link previously posted for the status of the leaves changing in different parts of Tennessee. It also says why.

[LauraC]

Peeper Report

Was in Cades Cove on 10/17, Friday (in the rain and fog). My guess is peak there will be next weekend and the following week. It's further along than other places I've been but it's not peak there yet as you can see.

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Was at Frozen Head State Park today (10/19). That one is still about 85% green and behind the Smokies Fall foliage-speaking. Even the surrounding mountains near the park and prison look nothing like the Fall colors of last year...which was pretty late last year. I used this pic so you can see the mountain in the background is still green. The other pic is, I think, a hornet's nest in a tree but I could be wrong. Still you can see the mostly green leaves around it.

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Oak Ridge -the Bradford Pears that were ablaze last year have yet to fully turn. In fact, they don't look any further along than a week ago.

[mbmouse]

These were taken today, 10/19/08 up around the Stoney Creek area of Carter County, Shady Valley, Mountain City areas of Johnson County and Butler and Hampton areas of Carter County. Many taken on the move and through a windshield that could have used a good washing.

[kamoshika]

Kingsport's Bays Mountain Park on 10/13:








Warriors Path State Park near Kingsport on 10/16:

[Tennesseestorm]

Beautiful photos Laura and MB!

Well, I just got back from visiting relatives in northwestern South Carolina, but along the way I took some photos... they initially start out in mountainous east Tennessee on I26 and show how the leaf color is so much less as we enter South Carolina.

There was hardly any change even in the mountain areas we passed through around 2500 ft. There may be more on the highest peaks of SC, but not where we were. Sorry, some are not TN photos, but I am also posting my NC-SC photos as a contrast of the changes we seen during our drive.

The last few photos are at the overlook on I26 near Temple Hill in Tennessee....

This was heading down I26 in northeast Tennessee on Friday... I think it will still be a few days before they peak here...
That little truck you see on the trailer was headed to Georgia... it had Georgia plates on the trailer... it was a neat little thing.


This is heading down I26 before we got to Asheville, NC...


This was just after we crossed into South Carolina.... note the much less change in color....


This is on down off the mountains... this is actually on I85 in upstate South Carolina... notice very little change...


This is looking out of my aunts/uncles garage door in Anderson South Carolina... Anderson has very little change...


and a walk through their neighborhood.... (mostly Live Oaks)





here is about the only "colored" tree in the neighborhood... this was at the community pond...

and on out from the pond out of the neighborhood...


just some palms I snapped while driving in Anderson... Cabbage palms I think.


Downtown Greeneville still all green...


Heading back into mountainous parts of upstate northwest South Carolina.... very little change...



This is heading back up into southwest North Carolina...



I think we were already in Tennessee here on I26 northbound...



this was at a scenic overlook at about 2750 ft. above sea-level..