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08-01-2025, 11:28 AM
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"Fall is the island and the rest of the year is the swim"
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08-01-2025, 11:31 AM
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Fall is my life preserver
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08-01-2025, 12:23 PM
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Just found this one...
 There's birds in them there woods... and as a tribute to Dean's gun & old car pix here, this is a long abandoned (& upside down) '59 Ford Ranchero I ran across just last Fall.  I saw the sun glinting off of the chrome bumper through the trees as I was looking for this downed bird. |
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08-01-2025, 03:21 PM
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Hope to hunt grouse one of these days. In the meantime, we have the dove season coming up here in the south.
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08-01-2025, 03:47 PM
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Can’t wait!
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08-01-2025, 10:57 PM
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There is a subtlety that Lloyd's first pic captures that the others don't, and that I haven't seen yet in the deep South this year, that of the late evening sunlight having a glow that isn't present during the rest of the year. It is the signal to me that fall is approaching. The golden glow of it is captured in that first pic perfectly. I can see it here even before the leaves begin to turn. All of a sudden, one late afternoon, it is there and it fills me with warmth and hope. It took my wife some number of years to learn to notice it, but now she does, too.
It will happen here next month. I have always wondered if it is some angle of sunlight that I cannot measure or accurately describe. Nonetheless, it is as real as the sun itself. And, the thing that it awakens in me is as real as I am, or maybe more so. |
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08-01-2025, 11:42 PM
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Stan's right, that is an evening shot (the light is out of the West, I must have been headed out to the new supperclub that opened up there just a few years ago). It's that long slanting light you get in late Fall, especially in those northern latitudes.
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08-02-2025, 09:27 AM
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Stan i think i have found a reason for the golden sunlight. For years i have seen this about the 15 th of august and read that about then the sun went below the equator and did not return until the next year. The suns rays then pass through a lot more atmosphere giving the dispersion that causes the change in the way we perceive the light. I imagine the latitude where you are will effect the timing of this. I am in Mass. so a lot further north than you are therefor earlier.
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