Honey, honey . . .

[lavendertook]

Ah, sugar . . . Sugar maple, brightest of them all! It's what makes New England and Ontario especially so grand in the fall. I'm not sure how far up north in Canada they do a good display--please chime in, Canadian flistmates. We don't have so many here, and there are fewer south of here. They kept a long display here this year, though many of them got rained off by their peak, and I guess most of us humans got rained in from seeing them. I love them pre-peak best, though, when they still have a lot of green to contrast with the flames.


Behold the colorful stuffses!!!




We're coming to the northwest corner of the lake now, where there's a hill that goes up from the lake with lots of picnic tables and grills, a playground, basketball court, small amphitheater, nice new restroom, the parking lot behind them, along with a couple of cherry trees and sugar maples, and some pines.

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[fromaway.livejournal.com]

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have marvellous leaf displays. That's all I really know. :)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I haven't been to Nova Scotia since I was a lil kid and I think we were there in the summer. I figured maples must go north enough to make it worth putting the leaf on the flag, but I don't think sugar maples are as hardy as other maples.

[shirebound]

One of the only things I miss about the east coast is maple trees!

(And lightning bugs. And decent pizza.)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I'm counting on you to tell me all about what's special, beautiful, and home about San Diego. I've never been there. The only places I've been to on the west coast are LA and SF, and the scenic ttrain route between those places.

I will take you to my favorite pizza place when you are out here. (-: I didn't know you didn't have lightning bugs out there, or that the pizza sucked.

[shirebound]

There's a lot of great stuff about San Diego,or I'd never have stayed here for 30 years. I love the weather and the dry air and being within an hour of mountains, desert, or ocean. The desert is an awesome place.

I'll definitely take you up on that pizza offer!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

The dry air is a very great enticement, especially with the weather we've had this year--it might as well be the Pacific northwest here.

Is it that they don't make good pizza crust out where you are, or that all of them are California Pizza Kitchen type fancy and you want just a basic flat NY style pizza?

[shirebound]

I crave a basic flat NY style pizza. Thin well-baked crust, authentic Italian (not Mexican-Italian) sauce... *drools*

Talking serious business here, hobbit-style.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, my local fav is a flat crust--a sweetish dough I like (not brick ovened), but perhaps not as crusty as you like, and the sauce is really good and flavorful. They load on the mozzarella and oil, though, maybe more than you would like--more substantial than a beach pizza and less burned on the bottom. Similar to the consistency of Papa John pizzas, if you have that chain out there, but better. There are others, of course, if that doesn't look like the pizza of your heart's content. I'm thinking you might like something crispier with less cheese better. More like Sbarro's?

Re: Talking serious business here, hobbit-style.

[shirebound]

Oh gosh, authentic Italian pizza. This is serious business indeed. We'll have to go pizza-questing sometime.

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! The contrast of green and flame red is stunning.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

(-: Thank you, Most people take pics of them when they've all turned, but I think they're at their most beautiful at this stage when they've only half turned.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

oh wow. I love that flaming red color!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

:-D Do you have many sugar maples out by you?

[timwb.livejournal.com]

Pretty!
Happy Thanksgiving!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Backatcha!

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

Ah and the syrup from those trees! Did you know that most "Vermont Maple Syrup" actually comes from Ohio trees?
:-D

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't and I"m glad to know that. Do you have a lot of sugar maples in your area? How was this fall's display?

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

Not a whole lot right in my area, but some. I was away for the best part of the display this year, hanging around NJ and NYC, remember? ;-) When I got home, we had several gloomy days in a row, and then the best was over.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so much of this year has been a weather wash out.