Also, What Fall Looks Like Here

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1. John Scalzi says:
   October 7, 2011 at 2:47 pm

   And yes, sometimes I think I live in the poster house for the American Dream. Don’t ask me how it happened. I think it involved blood sacrifice. It’s kind of hazy these days.
2. Hubert says:
   October 7, 2011 at 2:49 pm

   I see that as the awesome postcard available at the tourist kiosk on the other end of the (gated)driveway. Across the top in that bold yellow cursive writing: “Greetings from Scalziland! Now please go home.”
3. D. Paul Angel says:
   October 7, 2011 at 3:03 pm

   Very nice! I especially like the tree that is kind of by itself in the lawn. Sets the photo very nicely.
4. AnneInTO says:
   October 7, 2011 at 3:25 pm

   Lovely.

   Happy Canadian Thanksgiving weekend to all!
5. Peter Cibulskis says:
   October 7, 2011 at 3:47 pm

   Scalziland?!
   bwhaahahahaa

   great photo
   And yes it is the american dream.
6. PopsicleMud says:
   October 7, 2011 at 4:00 pm

   This makes me want to flip back and forth between your last couple of posts and shout, “Extreme close up!” like Wayne and Garth.
7. Jennifer Davis Ewing says:
   October 7, 2011 at 4:36 pm

   Ooh, purty!

   :-)
8. Ron Mitchell says:
   October 7, 2011 at 4:41 pm

   Damn your house is nice
9. Christoph says:
   October 7, 2011 at 5:16 pm

   Very nice. I am especially envious of your weather. Here in Germany it rains. It looks as if it may brighten up again with the beginning of next week.
   Anyway, beautiful picture!
10. Roberta says:
    October 7, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    If I had a hi-res of that I’d put it on my desktop to see every day. Talk about bucolic perfection.
11. saruby says:
    October 7, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    While I would not trade my low humidity, sunny clear summers for anything (lives in Colorado), I do miss midwestern Fall days. What the photo cannot convey is the lovely crisp scent of Fall, but it’s lovely nonetheless. Thanks for the reminder.
12. Chang says:
    October 7, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    It’s amazing how little signs of Fall we have here. Still so much greenery and not much leafery. In yellowery or redery or orangery. E.
13. musictheorysean says:
    October 7, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    Wow that’s a lot of yard! How do you mow it?

    (See what happens when you remind us about the Yard FAQ)
14. vian says:
    October 7, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    I do not envy you your snowy, freezing, awful winters, but I do envy you your gorgeous autumn. Particularly when we have just hit hay-fever season.
15. Aaron says:
    October 7, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    whoa…beautiful. great shot!
16. hokiegeek says:
    October 7, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    Cripes, that’s so gorgeous!
17. Elaine says:
    October 7, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    Really glad that’s not my grass to mow.
18. Megpie71 says:
    October 7, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    Lovely autumn colours.

    Spring over here in Western Australia, or in other words “id’s polledd seasodd” (and everyone is sneezing and snuffling away merrily in Chez Us). We also have the other typical marker of a Western Australian spring – the wonderful combination of atmospheric inversion and “burning off” by our department of conservation. “Burning off” is a fire prevention mechanism which largely consists of running a small, cool-ish fire through a fire-prone area early in the spring to clear out the undergrowth and small tinder (thus hopefully preventing a larger, more ferocious bushfire going through later in the year). This year there’s probably going to be a lot of it, because we’ve had a wetter-than-usual winter (or in other words, the winter weather was about normal for ten years ago) and that’s resulted in a lot of new growth in uncleared areas. The atmospheric inversion means we get the smoke and haze from the burning off sticking around for a lot longer and being a lot more persistent – and my ongoing contention is that the department of conservation and forestry actually times their burning off program to coincide with atmospheric inversions, because that way people know they’re actually doing something aside from watching trees grow.
19. barbinbandon says:
    October 7, 2011 at 11:45 pm

    Wow, just wow. Nice life choice. You (two) ‘ve earned a little smug.
20. Brad Roberts says:
    October 8, 2011 at 1:59 am

    Hey.. if you guys ever move, I want dibs on the property! :)
21. Kevin B says:
    October 8, 2011 at 3:34 am

    Where I live, things just turn brown in the fall. It usually doesn’t happen until some time in November or December. This year it won’t look much different than summer, since we haven’t had any rain.

    We did have some areas of bright red and yellow a few weeks back, but those areas are now mostly grey and black now. Enjoy your Autumn!
22. Ruth says:
    October 8, 2011 at 8:27 am

    Beautiful!! what a gorgeous view you have and it’s wonderful that you truly appreciate it!

    Here in Baltimore the leaves have only begun to look a little pale, no real color yet. It takes a long time for the leaves to turn here. We’ve been known to have snow while the Norway maples have leaves…into the end of November sometimes.
23. Ali Trotta says:
    October 8, 2011 at 10:39 am

    That is so beautiful. :-)
24. Sjthespian says:
    October 8, 2011 at 11:33 am

    That picture just reminded me of one of the few things I miss from Ohio – having real seasons. In California we don’t have fall, our leaves just die of old age and drop off ofthe trees.
25. Sooz says:
    October 8, 2011 at 11:52 am

    Lovely! Tho as an Englishwoman I find the utterly clear blue sky … odd. It should have at least a few puffy white clouds in it for my form of perfection:).
26. thesearenotthehammer says:
    October 8, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Midwestern autumns are truly beautiful.

    Where I live, it’s pretty much exactly like this. Because I live in Dayton.
27. skipjim says:
    October 8, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    My house looks a lot like that, only uglier, and you have to take all those mature trees from the right side of the picture and move them into the 1 acre front yard.

    They laugh at me this time of year, every time I turn around my entire lawn is under 6″ of fallen leaves.
28. David Tames says:
    October 8, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    Wait a second. So… to live in this house all I have to do is write a whole @$$ load of awesome novels, maintain a crazy @$$ blog, and write non-stop. Hmmm. Sounds easy enough. Anyone can write…right?

    Just kiiiiiiiiding. Though with this house, Athena practically needs a horse. She can’t be riding bunnies across the lawn.
29. Joel says:
    October 8, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    Sure you take great pictures of this idyllic property. But what can you do with noodles?
30. Ray, rude-ass yankee says:
    October 9, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    Whatever (see what I did there?) kind of camera you have, the manufacturer would probably love to have that shot as an example of what kind of picture their cameras can take. Awesome.
31. Pam Adams says:
    October 10, 2011 at 11:53 am

    Southern California is still pretty green, but with lovely clear blue skies. I’m waiting for the liquidambars to turn gold and red in December. Sadly, strawberries have finally disappeared from my local farmer’s market.

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