LOL.. if your weather is similar to ours, this is definitely the weekend to embrace fall!

I don't have all that many photos on my computer -- so no stunning landscape that will change your mind about fall. This is one of my all-time favorite photos though-- in fall about 25 yr ago. It fills me with love. I remember the day so clearly.. I hate having my photo taken but my dad caught me when I wasn't paying attention. No orange leaves but it was late October.. late enough that I was wearing a turtleneck.

I also have never been a fan of fall. It means summer, which I love, no matter how hot and humid, is over. I detest our winters. They are just rain, cold, and mud. I do not like the colors. I like pastels and green, not brown, orange, and red. I used to enjoy the holidays, but 19 years in retail and all the stress over them took care of that.

Fall and winter are just something to get through until spring and summer come again.

Pretty! And so glad you didn’t take a tumble.

I read; "first time i’ve ever understood why people like fall",

as like cool way to like say you understood like how healthy adults could fall over.

I remember visiting my neighbors one hot, muggy summer day and the husband had a lot of travel brochures spread out on their patio table under a shady umbrella. He was a coordinator for trips sponsored by our Council on Aging. I asked him where he would like most to go and he said "October - I can't wait to wear a flannel shirt again". Fall is my favorite season.

Fall is my fave as well - means things finally cool off here - sort of 😀

And I like how the light changes.

New England fall is so pretty! My friends live in CT and I visited them in Oct. 2019 - some of my fave photos:

Visiting my mom at the rehab center in New York City for a few days. All the older people here are wearing warm coats and complaining about the cold. Lol, I’m loving the crisp bite in the air.

I used to find spring more depressing in terms of the march of time than autumn. Not typical i know.

Last weekend I traveled from Cville VA to Warm Springs several times to volunteer at a gallery that ai love to help with their Plein Aire Festival. The drive, especially the Sunday morning trip, was just gorgeous.

This is my front yard one misty morning.

I used to love coming down our driveway in the autumn.. it is one of the things I miss most about our old house.

Our backyard at home

At our lake place

I love the cool. crisp air of fall. This is a favorite photo of a farmhouse down the road from our house. I happened to be driving by one day late last fall and the light was just right. I rolled the window down and took the shot.

garish colored leaves

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I love fall! It makes me feel like I can finally breathe again. Still hasn't arrived here. I'm patiently waiting.

I don't take many pictures that don't have my grandson in them ; I enjoy the views in the moment, then enjoy them in the moment again next year, so this isn't my photo, but it's one of my favorite autumn views. This is in Oregon; a forester, when replanting a clear cut logging site, interplanted the Douglas Fir with Western Larch. They are a conifer tree that turns bright yellow-orange, then drops all of their needles in the winter.

Fall in Montreal

Fall in Montreal - Love to travel East in the fall. I enjoy the cool weather and the changing of the leaves.

Fall in So CA - beautiful sunset courtesy of a wildfire.

Love fall but in So Cal we do not see too many colorful leaves. Fall is marked by fall decor, pumpkins and fall food. The downside, more winds and fires. We half joke that we do not have fall, we have fire season, Temperatures drop but it is gradual, we were still in the 90's this week.

I've come to accept and appreciate all seasons, even our long, dreary winters in Chicago.

I took this photo last fall at an arborteum. The leaves were stunning.

The following are on a path I regularly walk.

Fall is my favorite season. A few years ago DH and I spent 2 weeks driving around the state of PA just to enjoy the foliage and visit with family.

Funky - that is really a special photo.

kswl - I know how you feel about your driveway. Your photo reminds me of our place in PA. The gravel driveway is about 1/3 mile long and curves through the woods and as you make the last turn you glimpse the house.

This is from my New England trip in the fall of 2021. Vermont, I think. Just beautiful.

Spring is my favorite. Fall, not so much. I enjoy the leaves, but then we're sunk into gray and barren as the days get colder and darker, triggering my SAD.

Really enjoying all the beautiful photos!

@ lisaam - spring really gets me down for some reason. It's the only season I sort of dread.

Always makes me think of that song 'Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most'

This is what I see from my living room. Gotta say, I love fall!

Tell us more, Mojo, is that a bridge?

So many wonderful photos.

Funky, i love that shot.

Sue, is that you or your staff photographer?

Something a little different - I like weird mushrooms

3katz…don’t even get me started on mushrooms. I have probably 1000 pics…I became obsessed when there was nothing to do but walk in the woods in 2020.

Mtn, all the pics i have posted so far are from my phone.

Here are a few from my staff photographer, from NH last fall.

Maple and box elder in our yard. Love them but you can see why we need gutter guards.

Farm stand. I will go back soon when I am on fall break.

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Driving back from Asheville. A little past peak but still beautiful.

Campus! Some pretty colors near my building on the walk in. I think back in the day they filmed some scenes of Homeland here.

I am headed to Asheville next week…I guess I missed fall there?

Wow so many gorgeous photos.

Sue, what is that green and white fan shaped mushroom? The colors are great. And i like your DH's mushroom "couple" composition. The light on that one is amazing.

I also love the mushroom "couple" -- love the colors and textures (that I didn't notice until I blew it up).

The one that caught my eye is the bubble bokeh -- my photographer has been looking at a bubble bokeh lens so I have been seeing a lot of bubble photos the last few days.

Great images!

I hate fall. Well, it's not so much that I hate fall itself. I hate what it turns into. I despise winter. And every year, I despise it more. I do love to put on a nice cozy sweater. If it would only turn back into spring, it might be tolerable!

There are from my front porch in Nov 2021.

The spider web connecting the mushroom couple -- next level!

The photo from Asheville is from early November last year, so you are good, @Sueb20! Actually the leaves are running a little behind normal schedule. Our back yard is just starting to turn color and drop leaves. These photos of the yellow maple are from around Thanksgiving last year.

Smoky Mountains has a great interactive web site that illustrates the progression of fall colors throughout the lower 48. You can slide the circle underneath the map to see weekly predictions of the foliage.

https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/

Picture taken in Bucks County, PA.

Is that the Cuttalossa Farm?!

Mtn - you have a good eye - it's the Cuttalossa Farm Mill. The waterwheel can be seen by clicking on the picture. Here's another photo from Cuttalossa Road - the mossy sheep shed.

I love fall the best although this fall had a week in the 90s and too much rain., so not my favorite fall. Heading upstate to see some fall color this week, although we may be ahead of peak.

I honestly dont mind winter now that Im retired and have a generator. its cozy. Spring is lovely and i do not like the heat and humidity of summer.

I love to see the colors of the Japanese maple in fall.

Beautiful trees, dedtired. Not sure why my 2nd Cuttalossa photo did not post.

Kelly,

The mossy sheep shed at Cuttalossa may be one of my favorite buildings of all time. I grew up not too far from there, and can remember driving through that little valley where that farm is as alittle girl ... after dinner at the Cuttalossa Inn or Philips Mill or Golden Pheasant or Black Bass.... or even firehouse dinners! (do they still have those?)

That valley is so picturesque I sometimes think I dreamt it! The farm was for sale not that long ago but I don't really want to live in that area, way too far from our Maine house. I am pretty sure there was a car ad filmed there, which made me buy the car (seemed pre ordained).

The funny thing though is, how long can that sheep shed stay suspended in just the perfect state of deterioration? It has been decades. There was a Cheever short story from years ago that talked about how it is impossible for things to stay the same. His example was a white picket fence. The fence will always be changing from freshly painted, to chippy, to needing to be painted, and back again etc etc

ok, i want that last photo on my wall. It is beautiful and so enchanting and dreamy

You can, Funky.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/manger-at-cuttalossa-farm-bucks-county-pa-bill-cannon.html?product=framed-print&googleShopping=true&completeProductSku=artworkid%5B20496806%5D-productid%5Bprintframed%5D-imagewidth%5B10%5D-imageheight%5B6.5%5D-paperid%5Blusterphotopaper%5D-frameid%5BCRQ13%5D-mat1id%5BPM918%5D-mat1width%5B2%5D-finishid%5B0.125acrylic%5D&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7JOpBhCfARIsAL3bobdOjkUkHpjFn5EgItRp1Cl6nbKvp_peHzGhYXASF-Rq_5vUANxZneUaAs1TEALw_wcB

Honestly, I can't find a photo that I think really does it justice. Including the lsiting when it was for sale. Imagine a very narrow valley, with a road meandering through. The valley widens just enough for a house on one side, and a barn, pond, stream, waterwheel and sheep shed on the other side. Nothing else is visible. It is so cozy!

It is only a few blocks in from River Rd, which runs along the Delaware into New Hope and, across the bridge, Lambertville. Next spring, let's do a meetup there! Funky I'll come fetch you.

This AIrbnb is just down the road. It is a house... you can rent all of it or part of it IIRC.

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3718108?source_impression_id=p3_1696957304_RSKtu3UGDELDZtZb

Mtn,

I second your comment about Cuttalossa being so picturesque, and your picture of the sheep shed is beautiful. I've lived in Central Bucks for over 40 years, but unfortunately I only discovered Cuttalossa a few years ago. I took my picture of the sheep shed five years ago. I'm planning to go leaf peeping at Cuttalossa this week or next, so I'll check out Cheever's theory :-)

From the 2015 listing for Cuttalossa Farm: "In recent decades, the property has been prominently featured as the backdrop for advertising campaigns for many well-known brands and publications, including Range Rover, Brooks Brothers, Saks Fifth Avenue, National Geographic, Good Housekeeping, LIFE Magazine and others. A charming sheep shed set amid one of the property's pastures is rumored to be the most photographed single structure in all of Bucks County."

I don't know about dinners, but there are still plenty of firehouse pancake breakfasts in Bucks!

Count me in for the meetup!

Yes, it was a RR ad. But I can't find it no matter how hard I search, It was so funny to me to see it in this magical place from childhood ... who knew it was a "thing"?

This is going to be small potatoes compared to many here...We don't get a big autumn kaboom in these parts. 99.9% pines around here. Just a little color here and there. This is one of my 'heres'.

With the help of this forum, I was able to find out what our mystery tree was! It's an English or Persian Walnut tree grown thanks to our neighbor's poor trash habits! We got a walnut tree out of that!! (grown from discarded trash) Last year we got a few walnuts for the first time, that dh, to his horror, cut off the nut bearing branch by accident! He still kicks himself for that faux paux. It was that poor axed branch that enabled the keen eyes here to figure out what Ms Mystery tree was though.

I took this photo this morning, because this walnut tree changes its colors all at once, then drops all of its leaves at once too. As if it is shy and wants to continue to go unnoticed.

Beautiful autumn colors many of you have. So nice to see!

I found the photo-- and isnt FAA funny? You can get your imagine on a shower curtain or iphone case or whatever. I opted for the fine art print lol... still deciding if I want it small (as i saw it in my head) or big.

<<it is only a few blocks in from River Rd, which runs along the Delaware into New Hope and, across the bridge, Lambertville. Next spring, let's do a meetup there! Funky I'll come fetch you.>>

I would love that! I haven't been to New Hope in years-- 6 maybe? I have seen the property before but I can't be sure if we passed it or if it was prior images you shared-- or both.

I am definitely game for a meetup if I can make the dates work.

<<This AIrbnb is just down the road. It is a house... you can rent all of it or part of it IIRC.>>

What a lovely property-- I sent my parents to New Hope for one of their anniversaries and the place was not nearly this nice (hangs head in shame)!

LOL had to laugh-- every B&B or AirBnB near New Hope takes property photos as if they have a spread in architectual digest! I don't need a close up of your mirror or vase, I want to see the bed-- right up front. One of the first 15 photos at least! LOL

We stayed at that Aribnb last spring and visited friends and family. It is a big house but we were in just a 1 BR wing.

Funky, I am gonna remember this!

If anyone is looking for a wonderful place to stay in the area, check out The Woolverton Inn. We stay a couple times a year and we just love it. The grounds are wonderful. There are sheep! The breakfasts are good. And the owners are wonderful.

https://www.woolvertoninn.com/

We always stay in one of the cottages instead of a room in the main house. They're larger and more private I think.

We take my elderly in-laws (in their 90s) a couple times a year. They live in New York City and they love to just sit around the grounds in the quiet.

It's not in Bucks County. It's on the NJ side. But it's a quick 10 minute drive to Lambertville/New Hope, and maybe 15 minutes to Peddler's Village.

We live about 30-35 minutes from there so it's a nice staycation for us. We always go mid week because New Hope/Peddler's Village on the weekends is just too crowded. We try to avoid Mondays because so many restaurants are closed.