{"id":1087,"date":"2017-09-22T02:25:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T02:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2017-09-22T02:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T02:25:56","slug":"new-england-autumn-foliage-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/new-england-autumn-foliage-season\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Autumn Foliage Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088\" style=\"width: 776px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVIS13_3603.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVIS13_3603.jpg\" alt=\"Autumn foliage in New England\" width=\"776\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVIS13_3603.jpg 776w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVIS13_3603-264x340.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVIS13_3603-768x990.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn foliage in New England<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I love autumn in New England.\u00a0 The colors of the leaves here are world famous.\u00a0 The reason is the large number of sugar maple trees and a good number of red maple trees.<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning your fall vacation, there are a some good web sites that can help, but most are simply reporting the foliage as it is right now rather than forecasting when peak color will manifest.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a reasonably good map that I found helpful:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bE1Q2Jai7t\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/newengland.com\/seasons\/fall\/foliage\/peak-fall-foliage-map\/\">Peak Fall Foliage Map<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Peak Fall Foliage Map&#8221; &#8212; New England Today\" src=\"https:\/\/newengland.com\/seasons\/fall\/foliage\/peak-fall-foliage-map\/embed\/#?secret=bE1Q2Jai7t\" data-secret=\"bE1Q2Jai7t\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do keep in mind this is based upon past years and not necessarily an accurate prediction for this year.\u00a0 As they say in the stock market, past performance does not guarantee future results.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read multiple suggestions online that the color could be particularly vibrant this year, considering this year&#8217;s temperatures and rainfall.\u00a0 Eastern Massachusetts experience significant drought during 2016 &#8230;\u00a0 but not so in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Also consider the night temperatures are still warmer than usual. Tonight, temperature will finally drop into the 40s but warmth returns this weekend.\u00a0 This may mean peak color will be a bit later than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love autumn in New England.\u00a0 The colors of the leaves here are world famous.\u00a0 The reason is the large number of sugar maple trees and a good number of red maple trees. If you are planning your fall vacation, there are a some good web sites that can help, but most are simply reporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,54,20],"tags":[164,165,166],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-newengland","category-photo","tag-autumn","tag-foliage","tag-new-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}