279/365 - Paradise Landscape

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A fall landscape, from the beautiful "Paradise Plunge" up the hill behind my house (ok... several miles behind my house).

Be sure to click the photo, to see it large and on black. It's quite stunning that way.

Red red leaf

Fall is leaving us!
... and that's all I have to say about that. I'm visiting the lovely Sarah in Madison, then enjoying a Thanksgiving with my parents. Enjoy!

Garbage

Fallen leaf on a garbage can
Late fall -- the time of year I sometimes like to call "the blahs". The leaves have fallen, but there's no real snow on the ground yet. The air is filled with chilly wind and the smell of wet, decaying leaves. On a wet, windy day, this leaf happened to fall onto the back of a bearproof garbage can in Lac La Belle, where it caught my eye.

Fall on the Quincy Tram

The New Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad
This beautiful fall scene comes to you from the top of Quincy Hill. The rail line here is the new Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad, which runs a tourist tram down to an old mine entrance. The old Q&TL RR ran along the crest of Quincy Hill, running mine rock down from the mine to the Quincy Mill and bringing coal back up.

The bridge here is the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, a major local landmark which looks extra pretty in blue. Enjoy!

Late Fall

Leaf of mooditude, dude
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This leaf is just barely clinging on up near Copper Falls... pretending it's still Late Fall and not Almost Winter. The nice warm 60 degrees we're having this week are probably encouraging it, too!

I say: bring on the snow -- I'm ready to get out the snowshoes.

Brilliant Oak

Oak Leaves on the Q&TL Railroad
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Not much to say: the colors here are amazing!

In other news, I'm trying to crop my photos to 8x10 size so that I can print them more easily. I recently ordered some 8x10 prints from Adorama which turned out most excellent (especially when they have a sale). The only problem is that photos from my Nikon are not in the right aspect ratio (it's closer to 4x6), so the prints have white strips along two sides. In the future, I'll hopefully be able to avoid that problem.

Glowing grove

Fall trees and a pine grove

Here it is again, that old pine grove along the Q&TL railroad. This time of year, the trees are absolutely glowing up there! I just got back from another hike along the old railroad, and I have even more photos of brilliant leaves, lovely trees, and blue skies.

Watery Leaf

It's fall!
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... so it's time for photos of leaves! The colors are coming along pretty well here. This leaf was in Quincy Creek, which is a well-hidden creek out near Mason. The creek also has some lovely small waterfalls -- photos of those are coming soon. My next goal is to get up to the Cliff lookout when the colors are at their peak!

The Door Out of Summer

Looking back to summer
It's past Labor Day, so that means school has started again: I'm teaching Calc 2, taking Statistics, preparing for Comprehensive exams in January, and recovering from a bike-induced shoulder injury which is keeping me from doing almost any of my favorite activities. Dangit, where did summer go?!

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