{"id":1583,"date":"2011-09-29T18:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:56:44","slug":"finding-the-peak-of-fall-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1583","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Peak of Fall Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1584\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100928_Aspen_Marshall_Pass_5D_4604_w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1584\" title=\"Aspen, Marshall Pass, Colorado\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100928_Aspen_Marshall_Pass_5D_4604_w7.jpg\" alt=\"Aspen, Marshall Pass, Colorado\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aspen, Marshall Pass, Colorado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fall color is sweeping the country. To make the most of it, you want to be at the right place at the right time. Fortunately, that&#8217;s not hard to do.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The color season progresses from north to south and from higher elevations to lower elevations.\u00c2\u00a0 Peak color in Michigan&#8217;s U.P. occurs a week or two ahead of locations in Michigan&#8217;s lower peninsula.\u00c2\u00a0 The aspen at higher elevations in Rocky Mountain National Park turn a week or two ahead of lower elevations.<\/p>\n<p>With a little planning and some help from the internet, you can avoid the disappointment of arriving too early or too late to get the photos you want.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a number of Web sites to help you out. Some will tell you the usual time of year that the leaves hit their peak color for a given area.\u00c2\u00a0 Better yet are the sites that give you actual reports on a regular basis. Some sites have forums where people log in to post reports and pictures. Some of the sites recommend fall color drives.<\/p>\n<p>I have collected a wide variety of fall color sites to help you arrive at the location\/s of your choice when the color looks great.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out these <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/Links\/Fall_Color_Reports\/fall_color_reports.html\">Fall Color Reports<\/a>, make plans, grab your camera, and go have fun!<\/p>\n<p>You can order a print of the above photo at <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.zenfolio.com\/\">JimDoty.Zenfolio.com<\/a> in the Colorado gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall color is sweeping the country. To make the most of it, you want to be at the right place at the right time. Fortunately, that&#8217;s not hard to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photo-locations","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}