If you went to high school with me, you know that Mr. Ace (my 9th Grade Geography teacher) would be so happy for me – I’ve finally seen Fall Foliage!
Stopped on County Road 17 to take some pics
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It's beautiful here
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Look at that valley
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Me, roadside
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And there's the illustrious point
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Me and the hill of color
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Me again
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And here's Shelly out in the color
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Fall Foliage is pretty amazing
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Lots of colors
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How much can I say about leaves?
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Looking back towards the colorful hill
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Zoom-in
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At a second stop, we found a great view from the road and a beautiful lawn
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Me
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There's Catherine and an amazingly located house
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It was pretty breathtaking the view out here
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Looking down the ridge
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So today, Shelly and I took a drive up to upstate New York (I think anything north of Manhattan is considered ‘Upstate’…) to get a look at the amazing phenomenon known around the world as ‘The Fall Colors’ or ‘Fall Foliage’. During the month of September and the beginning of October, the leaves change color throughout this region and you get brilliant displays of colorful leaves, ranging from ridiculously bright yellows and greens to oranges and reds that could make you cry. This is definitely a true phenomenon that has to be seen in person to be believed. My pictures definitely do not do it justice, mainly because whenever there was amazing colors, we were either on the highway or on a very narrow twisty road I did not feel comfortable stopping on and getting out to take pictures on. So alas, the pictures above are the extent, but it gives you a decent idea of how awesome it is. We ended up driving from West New York to the Catskills areas (cue the Dirty Dancing soundtrack!) for this adventure, and basically this was an entire day trip, as this was a lot of driving. What was great though was that once you basically got out of the main NYC area, New York is incredible looking. So the entire drive was awesome, but of course, once we got closer to the Catskills, that was when the leaves became truly beautiful.
Anyways, that was my exploration for this week. As for other things, I am going to start taking lessons in rollerblading, which are held in Central Park. Hopefully this will give me a lot of confidence in rollerblading and then I can start rollerblading all sorts of places. But I guess Central Park will be my next ‘place to see’. And wonder of wonders, I put up a personal profile on Yahoo Personals. Guess we’ll see how that goes. Stay tuned.
