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Autumn Views from Central Connecticut
2001 Archive
When will the leaves turn? It's the question on everybody's mind as autumn arrives each year in New England. For a sense of how the leaves changed week to week in 2001, click on these links for images of the view outside my window in Central Connecticut.
November 6,
2001
Well, it is a much brighter day today, and the foliage-bare trees stand
silhouetted against the blue sky and the sun. As I drive around the state, I do
see a few trees still clinging to some color, but my view is definitely lacking
for leaves as we get our final look out the window for 2001.
October 31, 2001
What a difference a week makes! It's a cold, gray Halloween day, and there are
just a few scraggly leaves still hanging on.
October 24, 2001
Well, there's a reason that they call it "fall." The leaves are
leaving us as the days get shorter and the nights cooler. Even the stalwart tree
just off our back deck that had clung so tightly to its green foliage has now
turned a brilliant shade of gold.
October 17, 2001
All of a sudden, the colors have really "popped" here in Connecticut.
While the tree in the foreground of my window view is still stubbornly hanging
onto the shades of summer, many of the trees tucked behind have given up the
ghost and shed their greens for the colorful reds and oranges of autumn.
October 10, 2001
You'll notice this week that the yellow leaves are competing to overpower the
green ones... and that the treetops are starting to appear a bit bare. There's
plenty of fall color still to come, though, methinks.
October 4, 2001
I've zoomed in a bit this week to show you that indeed the yellow hues in my
view are intensifying in their vibrancy. However, as you can see, the foliage is
still predominantly green. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict a
long-lingering fall color season based on what I'm seeing here in central
Connecticut in early October and what I observed on a just-completed, five-day trip to Maine, where the progression of the fall seemed substantially behind
where I had expected it to be.
September
27, 2001
If you stare carefully at the center of this view, you'll see that the yellow
leaves in the background are becoming a bit more noticeable than they were last
week. Still, the foliage is predominantly green here in central Connecticut as
October looms in the not-too-distant future.
September 21, 2001
I have a new view this year! And here's our first look outside my window for 2001.
As you can see, it still looks predominantly green and leafy, but there are
definitely signs of fall color to come here in central Connecticut.
2000 Outside My Window
Archive
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1999 Outside My Window
Archive
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Outside my Window header created by Kim Knox in NetStudio with window image from MasterClips Premium Image Collection and scanned leaves from About.com's site for Portland and Southern Maine. Leaf graphic from HTML Icons & Picture Archives public domain clip art collection.
