Central Park foliage
November 4, 2006, 2007, 2009
Re-posting this with Tumblr’s improved photo-set options: same date, same location, three years. I missed last year, and this year again I’m unlikely to be in New York on November 4; so message me [update: photographer found!] if you will be and would be up for snapping a few pics in the park.
Peak color in the Northeast seems to me to be happening about two weeks later than in the early-mid nineties. The change largely happened at once, in 2007, with a delay relative to 2006 of a month or longer that we’ve only half snapped back from, and irregularly; with length and intensity of daylight out of sync with the old patterns of temperature, some things change on their old schedule, others linger. There always used to be a single day, two at most, when everything was brilliant at once, and after that you knew would come purple and brown November.
