22-SEP-2013 20:44 UTC

Welcome to a new season.

And this is the best season in my estimation. In the Mid-Atlantic the air is cooler, the humidity is down and the trees are just starting to turn colors. I don't have any fall allergies, and that is an added bonus. I can't wait to stretch my wings tomorrow!

May your air be clean and cool! Fly strong Mr. Hound. Fair air and following wind for you.

My favorite time of year! There's no flying as good as a crisp and clear Fall day.

Winter?



EDIT: added picture proof. We have slipped the surly bonds of Summer...

Second snow this season!

I live for the four seasons in New England, with Fall being my absolute favorite.

Happy Equinox indeed!!
Late summer/early fall in the *PNW is absolutely awesome! We have the pleasure of a large variety of fresh picked "peak" ripe produce straight from the garden/field/orchard/grove. For those into grapes/wine, the fresh picked grapes are sweet and wonderful, while the crush is on for the wine varieties. Wild mountain huckleberries are on, and after the first solid frost the mosquitoes are gone, so camping is way more enjoyable.
The air is usually stable for semi-predictable great flying, and when the forest fires are conquered the visibility is pretty much unlimited.
Mtns. Rainier, Hood, Adams, St. Helen, Baker, Shasta, Washington, Jefferson, Sisters, Stewart, and other prominent dramatic mountains stand as silent sentinels in the crisp pristine fall air, and when flying they make beautiful navigation landmarks for well over a hundred miles. These mountains and others can be, and in the fall usually are, absolutely jaw dropping stunningly gorgeous when illuminated by the lighting of either sunrise or sunset.

Fall is wonderful, the only drawback is......
it ends badly,,,


lc

* Pacific NW. This is a geographic area loosely consisting of Washington State, Oregon, Northern most California, Idaho, Western Montana, and British Columbia, Canada.
I include this definition since BCP is becoming an increasingly internationally diverse group.

Edited my post above...

CamTom12 wrote:Edited my post above...

Pretty cool. I read a METAR on ForeFight which suggested that area went straight to Winter. Thank you for snow photograph.

Littlecub wrote:Happy Equinox indeed!!
Late summer/early fall in the *PNW is absolutely awesome! We have the pleasure of a large variety of fresh picked "peak" ripe produce straight from the garden/field/orchard/grove. For those into grapes/wine, the fresh picked grapes are sweet and wonderful, while the crush is on for the wine varieties. Wild mountain huckleberries are on, and after the first solid frost the mosquitoes are gone, so camping is way more enjoyable.
The air is usually stable for semi-predictable great flying, and when the forest fires are conquered the visibility is pretty much unlimited.
Mtns. Rainier, Hood, Adams, St. Helen, Baker, Shasta, Washington, Jefferson, Sisters, Stewart, and other prominent dramatic mountains stand as silent sentinels in the crisp pristine fall air, and when flying they make beautiful navigation landmarks for well over a hundred miles. These mountains and others can be, and in the fall usually are, absolutely jaw dropping stunningly gorgeous when illuminated by the lighting of either sunrise or sunset.

Fall is wonderful, the only drawback is......
it ends badly,,,


lc

* Pacific NW. This is a geographic area loosely consisting of Washington State, Oregon, Northern most California, Idaho, Western Montana, and British Columbia, Canada.
I include this definition since BCP is becoming an increasingly internationally diverse group.

Fall reminds me of how wonderful the NW really is. And how lucky we are to enjoy it.