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\u00a0I live in the\u00a0Pacific Northwest.\u00a0\u00a0We don’t have the same kind of fall leaf season that\u00a0I grew up with in the Northeast.\u00a0 I remember as a kid coming up over\u00a0a hill and seeing a panoramic view of mountains lush with color. The colors were so bright I remember\u00a0thinking, “The leaves are all\u00a0the colors of Fruit Loops!”<\/p>\n
In\u00a0Oregon, our mountains are evergreen –\u00a0with just occasional spots of\u00a0autumn color. We don’t talk about the leaves the\u00a0way someone on the east coast talks about the leaves. \u00a0I don’t ever hear the words “peak color.” Thankfully our neighborhoods\u00a0 put on a quite a show – at least until the rain knocks all the leaves into the streets.<\/p>\n
I’ve been traveling on the East Coast for the last two weeks and wondering when I would see some gorgeous fall color. It finally happened as we drove through the mountains of western Pennsylvania. It was stunning! Just like I remembered.<\/p>\n
My\u00a0anticipation of finding peak color\u00a0led me to a few fabulous websites for tracking fall foilage.\u00a0 The Foliage Report<\/a> has leaf maps for the Northeast, Southeast and regions. The WeatherBug site has a leaf tracker map<\/a> and an article on the science behind peak color.<\/a> \u00a0Its interesting to know that orange, yellow and brown leaves come from the pigment carotenoid and red and purple leaves come from pigment anthocyanin but\u00a0I prefer not to think of the science of it all and just be awed by the amazing beauty of our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0I live in the\u00a0Pacific Northwest.\u00a0\u00a0We don’t have the same kind of fall leaf season that\u00a0I grew up with in the Northeast.\u00a0 I remember as a kid coming up over\u00a0a hill and seeing a panoramic view of mountains lush with color. The colors were so bright I remember\u00a0thinking, “The leaves are all\u00a0the colors of Fruit Loops!” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}