The End Of Our Fall Foliage Season

 

November foliage! We are well past peak, but you can still see color if you hunt around a bit. 

I'd say that 99% of our colors are gone, and leaf drop is major... but every picture here is from the last week, mostly Duxbury, Plymouth, Halifax, Hingham, Marion, Rochester, Fairhaven, Middleboro, Bourne, Wareham, Sandwich, Mashpee, Mattapoisett, and those sort of towns. One of these may be New Beige, which is not an easy score unless you work the edges of the town.

I'd strongly recommend getting as South and as Coastal as you can. Again, most of the leaves are gone, and you'll really have to Want it, but you can still catch some if you hunt hard enough.

I'm pretty sure this is Duxbury, and I took it last Saturday. I drove by it on Tuesday, and all the leaves had dropped.

My sister's crabapple tree

The guy in the lower left is the Google Image Search result you get if you type in "The look you get when a car suddenly veers off the road, parks in front of you, then some giant and a tiny girl jump out and start aiming cameras at the sky like Japanese tourists."

"The ride was nice, country lanes comfort my bad brains...You're an ass if you think I'm doing this straight, mate... I need some chisel."

Until we got back to the office and emptied the cameras, we had no idea how much we came to rely on this particular sort of tree/plant/bush thingy for late season color.

We didn't get too far out on the Cape, as the Cape tends to blow for foliage. 130, 6A, side roads... but lots of scrub pine and we tend to stop in Brewster when we even head out there for one of these articles.

The tree on the left is like "I'm taller," but the one on the right is like, "I'm prettier." They'll both fall over and rot in a 100 years or so, and this argument matters very little in the great scheme of things.

I think the warm Autumn, the drought conditions and the 2020 effect helped kick the foliage season a few weeks later. Route 228 going towards the coast was spectacular as recently as last Wednesday.

If we weren't actually driving around looking for different trees, I would have hung around under this one for a while. Yellow leaves look cool AF when the sun shines through them.

The windstorm the other night, and the fact that it is November 17th as we write this, means that you are probably too late to do a real foliage drive. We'd recommend driving around looking for cranberry bogs and to just be happy if you stumble across a tree peaking.

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