Fall in Northern NH (lots of pics)

Portsmouth is a nice little city.

I enjoyed it a lot. Portland, Maine too.

IMO the best part of a visit to Portland is the old port. But there is a good food scene sprinkled throughout, so I've heard.

Phil, spectacular, as always. I love going on these armchair jaunts with Mary Lou and you.

This. Thank you so much Phil.

Beautiful! I wish I lived in the US or CAN 

Thank you all for the kind replies.

andrewjs18
Portsmouth is lovely. Lots of great shops and restaurants. I like it more than Portland, ME simply because the shopping and eating places are in a smaller area. In Portland we really had to hoof it. I was exhausted at the end of the day.

That is just spectacular!  Its encouraging to know that somewhere the seasons get an opportunity to fully express themselves.  Here is fall in Southern Alberta:



Hi Marko. This is ML. I love the snow but would be very upset if it ruined my fall! The only time we got snow in the fall we had a blizzard in October and they had to call in the National Guard because we lost so many trees and they took the power lines with them when they fell. The snow was heavy and the leaves held it similar to your picture. Does that happen to you as well?

ShadowsDad
Thank you for your kind words! You made my day!

That is just spectacular!  Its encouraging to know that somewhere the seasons get an opportunity to fully express themselves.  Here is fall in Southern Alberta:



Hi Marko. This is ML. I love the snow but would be very upset if it ruined my fall! The only time we got snow in the fall we had a blizzard in October and they had to call in the National Guard because we lost so many trees and they took the power lines with them when they fell. The snow was heavy and the leaves held it similar to your picture. Does that happen to you as well?

ShadowsDad
Thank you for your kind words! You made my day!

Hi ML, yes we do get that as well.  When the precipitation starts as rain and the leaves are still one the trees and then the temperature drops below freezing the rain on the leaves freezes and makes a great textural surface for the slushy snow to cling to and then as more snow falls the weight overwhelms the trees ability to support it.  We had a catastrophe storm about 7 or 8 years ago in early September and a huge number of trees were destroyed.  I lost 5 out of my own yard alone.  I can recall driving to work 2 days after the storm down tree lined streets of an older neighbourhood.  Not only were there trees down all over the place across cars and the road  making passage difficult but they were still falling.  It was an interesting drive.  Its been a while around here since we've lost transmission lines but there have been instances where not only have the lines come down but they've taken the steel towers with them as well - when one goes down the added weight on the next towers can cause a domino effect with multiple towers going down.  Bad news because that's not a quick fix.  Nature is so beautiful and can assert its power unpredictably.  Our issue with weather here is primarily related to elevation - we're at 3,600 ft. so we're poking out into the coldness of space more than those at lower elevations

Hi Marco,
ML again. Wow! It only happened to us once in the 20 years we lived in SE NH. After that, the power company came around and cut away EVERYTHING that was even a little close to the power lines. Really changed the look of the landscape! I guess I understand it, but I really didn't like it. I think if I lived where you do, and it happened every year, I would cut down the trees near my house. We had a small branch ( only about 7 inches in diameter) come down on our roof there and it actually went through the overhang. The force of the wind and the drop made it a torpedo. After that, we cut the three trees that were right in front of our house. Amy slept in the loft right under them. We realized just how dangerous it could be. We never really thought about it because before then, any branch that came down landed sideways and just rolled off the roof. I hated cutting them down as they were over 60 feet and they were quite beautiful, but it wasn't worth the risk.

The last northeaster 1 1/2 weeks ago saw us without public utility supplied power for 4 1/2 hours. Of course we had the power supplied by the PV system I built 20 years ago so it wasn't a hardship for us. I was considering starting the generator when we got power restored and I heard the inverters charging the batteries. Lots of folks were w/o power for days from that storm. At the peak of the outage approx' 250k people were in the outage if memory serves.

ML, did you folks dodge that one? It might have been largely a Maine event since it developed in the gulf of Maine and came inland.