Oaktree
Super Member
I used to be one of those flooding the backroads.
We'd take off at dawn from Burlington, drive down to Bennington, cut east to Brattleboro, up to I89/I91 and back to Burlington. LONG drive but memorable.
We usually do a foliage loop drive last Sunday in Sept...Lancaster to Colebrook then thru Dixville Notch to Errol (with an obligatory stop at LL Cote), down to Berlin, over to Whitefield then back home, usually with a stop at Gorham House of Pizza or the Chinese buffet (which I don't think has re-opened post-covid). Some years clockwise, others reversed. Foliage is beautiful this year! It's been so dry I didn't think it would be.
We've had 5 or 6 nights where we got frost...a couple of them into the low 20s, so the garden is pretty much done. If anything "fall" seemed to come a couple weeks early this year.
My favorite season, bar none.
Feels like fall here in N. FL.
Somehow, I don't associate Florida with fall.
An old childhood friend lives in the Sarasota area, one year I drove down to visit him (would have been mid-ish Oct). Called him the night before to let him know when I would be there, he told me it was nice & cool (I was in Ga. at the time, and it was hotter than you-know-where). Got there, it was in the mid 90s and muggy. Told him I thought he said it was cool, he said something to the effect that it was, had been "hot" the previous week. No thanks.