Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to share some pictures from our recent trip to the mountains to check out some fall foliage colors!

Autumn Mountain Photography

Growing up, one of the things that I really didn't appreciate that much was how beautiful the area that I live in, actually is. Living on the Eastern Coast of the United States has so many perks, and some of the best of them being having beautiful scenery within a few hours driving distance!

We love to go visit the mountains that are a few hours away from where we live, for so many reasons. In October, those reasons are definitely the beautiful color of the whole landscape! We took a drive up there this past weekend and really had a good time seeing the beautiful vistas all around us.

At the bottom of the "notch" in the mountains, there are a couple of really nice lakes like this one. I didn't take any of these pictures, these were all snapped by my wife and I think she did a wonderful job! Not all of them were winners but she got several dozen awesome ones like this. I love the look of the lake peeking between the trees, most of them shedding their summer colors in favor of their nice autumnal yellows and oranges.

Our favorite was definitely, and obviously, the beautiful mountain vistas that we got to see! There were so many sights to be hold. It was actually also very interesting because this is the first time in my life where we actually had traffic on this mountain road! Usually, unless there is an accident (there are quite a few deer and moose up here.. as you can imagine. People hit them fairly regularly!) there is never any traffic here. We were stopped completely in the line of cars but everyone was taking in the beautiful sights like this one! I love seeing the Appalachian mountains like this, they are a wonderful range and are indeed a bit weathered and aged but I think that gives them a lot of their character.

One thing that struck me as incredibly strange and interesting is that nearly all of the trees in the notch here were yellow! I found that incredibly strange, thinking that we surely must have more varieties of the trees so that we get some reds and oranges in there but nope, all yellow lol. I was amazed by that! I don't know if my wife noticed it until I said it but it really stuck out to me.

The funny thing about it as well was that this was only in the notch that this occurred. Prior to the notch and after it, there were plenty of reds and oranges to be seen but inside it, it was all yellow lol. There are of course the evergreen trees all over the place that you can see which is certainly granted but as far as the seasonal trees, they were all yellow! I am going to look up which trees do that. I know the reds and oranges are often Maple trees which are my favorite but the yellow ones here, could be a lot of beech, birch and other styles.

The wild thing that always amazes me and makes me enjoy it, is that when you are driving through the notch, the mountains are so tall on either side! You have to lean in and look upwards from the window to see the tops of it and I love that. If I could, I would live in the mountainous region here lol but my wife wouldn't care for that as much. Ah well, maybe someday!

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