Bart Carrig
Well-Known Member
It's mid-July, the fans and AC are pretty much full throttle --
A few years back a friend called from Minn to say he was in Pennsylvania and wanted to make a fall run to the Adirondacks, could I line up some sites. It was late fall, the colors were mostly well-past prime, but in the valley of the Adirondack Mtn. Reserve, the low colors can still be found, so a few days before he arrived I ran up scope out a few locations.
There had been an unusual combination of conditions: A sudden wet snow on the high peaks, follow by open sun and a quick melt, followed by a deep freeze the next night, and the morning I got there, more open sun and a fast melt.
So there were ad hoc streams from the melt, and heavy water flow, and I started seeing ice on the low sticks and branches, the moss, the downed fall leaves, and even the grass.
In this particular shot, my favorite of all, the freeze and the melt came in perfect combination to thicken even single blades of grass, and drips from the melt would freeze as they fell.
Here was one of several results:
Bart
A few years back a friend called from Minn to say he was in Pennsylvania and wanted to make a fall run to the Adirondacks, could I line up some sites. It was late fall, the colors were mostly well-past prime, but in the valley of the Adirondack Mtn. Reserve, the low colors can still be found, so a few days before he arrived I ran up scope out a few locations.
There had been an unusual combination of conditions: A sudden wet snow on the high peaks, follow by open sun and a quick melt, followed by a deep freeze the next night, and the morning I got there, more open sun and a fast melt.
So there were ad hoc streams from the melt, and heavy water flow, and I started seeing ice on the low sticks and branches, the moss, the downed fall leaves, and even the grass.
In this particular shot, my favorite of all, the freeze and the melt came in perfect combination to thicken even single blades of grass, and drips from the melt would freeze as they fell.
Here was one of several results:
Bart
