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Old 10-09-2010, 04:35 PM
 
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You are all making me soooo homesick. : (
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Old 10-11-2010, 02:43 PM
 
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I took this yesterday. The birch trees are all but done, but the tamarack on the hillside are such a strange color. During the summer it's difficult to tell them from the cedar, pine and firs, but this time of year they usually pop right out. I hope they start turning gold soon. Oldangel, I'm sorry. I know that feeling all too well. Perhaps you need to smell some pine trees. I don't know where you are, but really, I do sympathize! My sister-in-law grew up here and now lives in the California desert. She often says she's in need of a tree fix. Me, I need an ocean fix!

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Old 10-11-2010, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Lakeside
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Ours are just barely starting to turn here.
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Old 10-14-2010, 12:54 AM
 
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Nice article in the Spokesman-Review about the tamaracks:

Autumn takes hold in the region - Spokesman.com - Oct. 13, 2010

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In Idaho : From Wallace, take Nine Mile Road north to Thompson Pass, and return to Interstate 90 via the Coeur d’Alene River Road. Another option: head to St. Maries, then take the St. Joe River Road across Gold Pass and into St. Regis, Mont., then take I-90 back over Lookout Pass.
And how about this?
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Individual western larch can live 900 years, but ancient trees are extremely rare...Most of the old-growth western larch was logged a century ago for its valuable timber...
On a recent trip to the Colville National Forest, Pass pointed to a 100-foot-tall larch with a grizzled top. Its age: about 350 years.
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Old 10-14-2010, 06:24 PM
 
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What a great article! I had no idea they could live that long. We've got some old cedars around here but, like the article says, the tamaracks are pretty highly prized as firewood. Wow! 900 years! Who knew?
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Old 10-20-2010, 09:01 AM
 
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You are all making me soooo homesick. : (
You and I both every time anyone posts a picture I start thinking "only 4 more years... only 4 more years..."
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Old 10-25-2010, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Lakeside
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It's time! All of the tamaracks around here are in brilliant color. Gorgeous. They always seem to wait till all the leaves are off the aspens and cottonwoods so they get our undivided attention.
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Old 10-27-2010, 02:51 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Same at our place. This thread got me keeping an eye on them, it seems like they finally turned in about a week. This seems real late in the year to me.
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Old 11-02-2010, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Lakeside
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View from our top pasture. Darn it...teh tams were much brighter IRL. Gotta read the stupid camera manual.

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Old 11-02-2010, 05:41 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Read the manual? Sacrilidge.
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