Sometimes the best photos are taken with the simplest equipment. Whether fall or autumn... as a preschooler influenced primarily by family, it was "fall." Learned the term "autumn when I started school. I think both are fairly common this side of the pond. One or the other might be more prevalent, depending upon just where you are in the country. Dave
Sometimes the best photos are taken with the simplest equipment. In this case it was taken with my only equipment! XD I don't actually own a "proper" digital camera. I do have an old Pentax K1000 but it's years since i"ve bought film for it.
Interesting what you said abut the use of autumn and fall. I though fall with standard usage throughout the US, I didn't know there was so much regional variation.
I think "fall" is more common, but... "autumn" is familiar as well. Another term that varies from region to region is "soda" or "pop" as relating to soft drinks. Some call it "soda", others "pop,", some "soda-pop," and in some places it's "coke" regardless of what it really is. Dave
"Soda" here tends to refer specifically to soda water, but I'm sure "pop" is used in some parts of the country. In Glasgow fizzy drinks are traditionally referred to as "ginger" regardless of what flavour they actually are!
My first thought was that it looked like New Jersey. I know that that is not how most people think of New Jersey, but it is called 'the garden state' because it fed, and still feeds, New York.
We lived for some years in the upscale New Jersey horse country. (Monmouth County--Vagaries of the US Navy, we could not have afforded it otherwise,)
It looked like that.
Breathtaking. This is my favorite time of year. I suppose I would love spring too if it lasted as long as the fall, but it is so brief, and you hardly have time to enjoy the way it smells, and you are always getting your feet wet, and then it is over!
This is the park beside my house, I think I've posted a few pictures of it before. This isn't at all what I imagined New Jersey to look like! I have a good friend who lives in New Jersey, in Hoboken, but I have never been able to visit her.
I love this time of year too, when the weather starts to change.
I suppose I would love spring too if it lasted as long as the fall, but it is so brief, We tend to have spring in installments. We always get a few gorgeous clear blue days in early February before winter returns with a vengeance!
I've belatedly googled Colt's Neck, my goodness, that is a pretty part of the world :) Wikipedia also tells me that it's one of the highest income places in the US - eek! What was it like living there as a normal person?!
We were sent to live on a super-secret weapons base. There was a little cluster of housing, and then miles and miles of woods where who knows what was happening. Sometimes trucks would come by with missiles on them. And we were not allowed to go walking in the woods. (That was all right-- there were lots of nice off-base woods to walk in.)
But the town itself was lovely. The civilians of Colt's Neck seemed to find military families irritating. They were not especially welcoming. The civilian friends that I made there were not from Colt's Neck proper.
The schools were good, as far as the education offered. But I found that they were not very sympathetic to what was going on with our kids. There was one day when A was weeping in class because his dad had just left for 6 months at sea, and there was another little boy in the same state. Both had gotten up at 4 am to take dads to the ship, and were really too tired for school. (They were 7.) Teacher was very unsympathetic about it. That was the teacher that was the inspiration for my 'Horatio-had-a-mean-teacher' story.
One thing I did realize, living there, was how beautiful and green that bit of the world was before we came and paved over half of it!
Super secret weapons base in the woods? Sounds like a rather surreal experience!
What a shame A had to suffer the rotten teacher though. That willful lack of sympathy and understanding makes me really angry. Many teachers are wonderful, wonderful people, but some seem to take no responsibility for the impact they have on young minds.
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Date: 2012-10-07 04:07 pm (UTC)BTW, we've had our first cool and frosty mornings here (Spokane, WA, USA) as well.
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Date: 2012-10-07 09:46 pm (UTC)Sounds like autumn has arrived on both sides of the pond. Though I guess it's fall on your side :)
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Date: 2012-10-08 12:19 am (UTC)Whether fall or autumn... as a preschooler influenced primarily by family, it was "fall." Learned the term "autumn when I started school. I think both are fairly common this side of the pond. One or the other might be more prevalent, depending upon just where you are in the country.
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Date: 2012-10-11 08:34 pm (UTC)In this case it was taken with my only equipment! XD I don't actually own a "proper" digital camera. I do have an old Pentax K1000 but it's years since i"ve bought film for it.
Interesting what you said abut the use of autumn and fall. I though fall with standard usage throughout the US, I didn't know there was so much regional variation.
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Date: 2012-10-13 03:50 pm (UTC)Another term that varies from region to region is "soda" or "pop" as relating to soft drinks. Some call it "soda", others "pop,", some "soda-pop," and in some places it's "coke" regardless of what it really is.
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:48 pm (UTC)We lived for some years in the upscale New Jersey horse country. (Monmouth County--Vagaries of the US Navy, we could not have afforded it otherwise,)
It looked like that.
Breathtaking. This is my favorite time of year. I suppose I would love spring too if it lasted as long as the fall, but it is so brief, and you hardly have time to enjoy the way it smells, and you are always getting your feet wet, and then it is over!
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Date: 2012-10-07 09:54 pm (UTC)I love this time of year too, when the weather starts to change.
I suppose I would love spring too if it lasted as long as the fall, but it is so brief,
We tend to have spring in installments. We always get a few gorgeous clear blue days in early February before winter returns with a vengeance!
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:57 pm (UTC)It is fall in Brooklyn too. I will put some pictures up if people would like.
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Date: 2012-10-11 09:39 pm (UTC)But the town itself was lovely. The civilians of Colt's Neck seemed to find military families irritating. They were not especially welcoming. The civilian friends that I made there were not from Colt's Neck proper.
The schools were good, as far as the education offered. But I found that they were not very sympathetic to what was going on with our kids. There was one day when A was weeping in class because his dad had just left for 6 months at sea, and there was another little boy in the same state. Both had gotten up at 4 am to take dads to the ship, and were really too tired for school. (They were 7.) Teacher was very unsympathetic about it. That was the teacher that was the inspiration for my 'Horatio-had-a-mean-teacher' story.
One thing I did realize, living there, was how beautiful and green that bit of the world was before we came and paved over half of it!
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Date: 2012-10-11 10:25 pm (UTC)What a shame A had to suffer the rotten teacher though. That willful lack of sympathy and understanding makes me really angry. Many teachers are wonderful, wonderful people, but some seem to take no responsibility for the impact they have on young minds.
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