I've been looking to expand upon ideas I captured in the Autumn 2006 gallery, and add other ideas as well. Thus, you'll see some photos which look familiar if you've been at the Autumn 2006 gallery and some new locations and concepts. We can roughly separate the sets into distinct categories:
- Gourds and pumpkins from the later Farmer's Markets at Kendall Square.
- Packard's Farm (pumpkins on trailer, pumpkin patch) (10/07 and 10/28.)
- Cemetary (10/24.)
- Fall Display set up at Cambridge Marriott (10/12.)
- Conservation lands in Acton and Concord (10/13-10/14.)
- Visit to Arena Farms in Concord, which closed down permanently on October 31 (10/14.)
- Half-Moon Hill in Acton (Stone Bench sessions)
- Return to Esplanade in Boston in the morning (10/22.)
- In Acton, there is a road called Autumn Lane. I simply HAD to get these. I found the road by accident, attracted to a side-street by colorful foliage.
- Minuteman Historical Park in Lexington/Concord (historical house, stone walls)
- Several evening returns to the Esplanade.
- Several shots in the historical town center of Acton (11/25.) I was grimacing at anyone using leaf-blowers as I was shooting these.
- Arch Tree on the Esplanade and the leaf blower guy taken on 11/28. These were my final original shots of the season.
This year, foliage color development was quite delayed in places, due to a rather warm start to the season and warmer-than-average temperatures. At many times, one could find golden-yellow trees directly adjacent to green-leaved trees. This was especially true in downtown Boston, which hit its peak around 11/16 (over 14 days later than 2006) and there was still good color in scattered locations. On 11/25 I was able to find some great color in Acton in isolated pockets, but it was mostly sticks at that time throughout the suburban cities and towns.
My last Autumn 2007 pictures were shot on 11/28/2007. That's not to say that I won't add other pictures to this gallery, as I have a lot of stuff that I shot which hasn't gotten online.
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