Foliage Season in 2017
Bob Jensen at Trinity University 

High winds and driving rain took down a million trees in these mountains.
Our power is still out after five days, but this morning our Internet came back.
My propane generator expensively powers our cottage when the grid goes dead.

October 2017 was the warmest October on record for the White Mountain Region of New Hampshire.
As a result the color season probably should not have been as good as it turned out.
It was also very dry following a relatively cool and wet summer.
But in the last days of October we're having heavy rains and high winds that gratefully are stripping the leaves off the trees.
We don't want any leaves left on the trees before the blizzards arrive.

This is an unretouched view of three mountain ranges (Kinsman, Twin, and Presidential) that can be seen our cottage
Brightness of the colors varies with position of the sun.
The hemostat is hanging from the string pulling a ceiling fan switch

Every sky view at dawn changes not only day to day but minute-to-minute
I don't think jets from the Vermont pilot training base made the particular swirls below
It was just a combination of clouds and the sun at dawn

There's a big old maple tree near the studio that now is used mostly for storage of books, papers, and pictures

The opening on the left of the birch trees leads to our wildflower field that's now mowed and laying dormant for the inter

I did not retouch the photograph below taken at sunrise from our back deck

This is the golf course behind our yard

To the south of our cottage is young small-leaf maple tree alongside our driveway

I thought it might be of interest to show the varying views of this tree as seen from my desk over the weeks of foliage season
I took these shots from my desk over the course of several weeks

At dawn the leaves appear more red

After a heavy rain I took pictures of this very unusual vertical rainbow north of my desk

The rainbow below appeared a few years back

Mt. Washington looms in the distance (28 miles)

More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
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Blogs of White Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
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 White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/

On May 14, 2006 I retired from Trinity University after a long and wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm

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Our address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's Green Mountains to the West

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