Viewing the entries in the Fall Colors Contest got us thinking about actual fall colors and where to find them. In the Northeast, it's easy to find spectacular beauty right outside your front door, but here in the Northwest -- known for year-round greenery -- it's a little harder to find such inspiration.
Over at Fine Lifestyles, they listed seven places to get inspired by nature's palette, no matter where you live. Here in Oregon, their suggestion was along the historic Columbia River Highway, which takes you along the Gorge and passes by Crown Point and Multnomah Falls.
If you live in a part of the country where fall color is harder to come by, is there a favorite place that you go for inspiration?
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Comments (5)
I love the photo of the leaves.
Multnomah Falls is a great inspiration, but it's a little blah for color during the fall and winter. I have better luck finding vibrant fall colors in the nearby vineyards, along the Portland waterfront, Forest Park, Ladd's Addition, etc. The fog burning off the Columbia makes for a wonderful luminescent vibe that I'd love to see in a reading nook.
Love that leaf picture. It's basically my downstairs. Chestnut trim with matching oak floors, lemongrass green living room (BM Golden Delicious), orange dining room (BM antelope canyon, which 4yo calls appropriately "Cantelope Canyon"), tan and russet den. Ah, but what to do with the linoleum and oaky 80s kitchen?!?
moptop, I was driving out McLoughlin/99E yesterday and thought the trees overhanging highway (near the Eastmoreland Golf Course) were stunning. Surprisingly, there's also some incredibly firey reds in the parking lot of Con-way in NW Portland.
Inspiration can come in the strangest of places!
just for a little peek, not so much a glorious spread:
in marin county, terra linda is a neighborhood full of liquid amber trees...every house used to have one! now some of them are gone, but if you are driving around near the kaiser there are still a bunch in all different shades.