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Which year in today's review is your favorite sunset?

Good morning from MN!! Rainy here again today!!

Have a great day everybody!

Good Wednesday Morning and Happy Humpday to all!!
I like 1999 personally...

This year's, 2011 is my favorite sunset but they're all gorgeous!!

todays

Although 2001 is a close second, with the rays off the clouds (and the fact I know the photographer ;-)

My favorite has got to be 2005 ... watching the sunset from the dock, framed by trees. :)

I HAVE THE ANSWER, ALL OF THEM EXCEPT FOR 1998!

2005 would have been my 2nd choice Diana, for that very reason :)

And UC, you are so right!!

1999

Hard to pick one out of this lineup!

2001

I just realised that I hit the trifecta this week of "Birds". I guess that means I have reached my quota for a while....

2007 is my favorite. It may not have the stunning colors of some of the others, but it's my choice because it was sent to me by Sue Haralson as a way to offer her sympathy. She was out kayaking on Torch Lake the evening my Mom died and snapped this photo. Her note to me said that as she watched the sun go down, she was thinking of my Mom, how this was her sunset and it was her (Sue's) job to capture it for me....Thank you Sue, it's still beautiful to me four years later!

Well, DNRE announced today that the that fall colors will be in their peak on the last week of September. I knew it was going to be early. For those of you planning to see the painted landscape, just giving you a head's up.
The trees are turning.

Great shot for your mom, Mary. Sue did good. What a great tribute to your mom.

Historically, peak colours in the U.P. are mid-September to mid-October on any given year, so a "last week of September" peak doesn't seem that out of the ordinary. Usually, the first trees can't wait to turn and start in early August every year. There were plenty of premature turners along 26 between Painesdale and Mass City when we were up there earlier this month, but that happens every year and sometimes even earlier.

You're right about the leaf colors, Paul. I haven't said much when it's been brought up. One, I never saw any leaves turning. Two, it's a rare year that we don't see them turning when we're there in August. And this year we were there later.

We have a small Maple at the end of the driveway that starts turning usually the end of July. Like I said before, is this an early fall or do we have an early tree? Now we'll make like a tree and leave. Sorry. :o)

I've camped at Hog Island; it's so beautiful. Calgon, take me there....

That was good, Ken, in an awful kind of way. ;-)