New Photos of the Great Outdoors

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I took these photos, today, here in Eastern Oklahoma. It was
a cool, but pleasant, late October day. I took my jacket off
at about 10:00 AM, when the thick fog had lifted.

Trees along the roadside are just beginning to show colors,
as the fall of the year is still only beginning.

A view of the valleys, with some trees in the foreground.
I thought that perhaps the one turned tree would add some
color to the photo.

The Ouachita National Forest is a mixed forest, with
maples, blackjacks, other oaks, pines, cedars, and
various trees. This is an overhead view I took from
a mountain road. You can see streaks of brown, where
some sections of deciduous trees have fall foliage.

Another roadside view of fall foliage.

Some geologists theorize that, though the Ouachita
Mountains are, today, a relatively low-lying mountain
range, they were once among the tallest in America.

Some of the trees are sort of scrubby, at the
ridges, because of so much rock. These were the
source for material for stone tool-making for
millenia, as the rock found here could be made
razor-sharp, by an experienced maker.

The Ouachita National Forest is the oldest-established
national forest in the southern region of the United
States. These pictures were taken in the Oklahoma
part of a forest which stretches well into Arkansas.

The Ouachita Mountains lie immediately south of
the Cherokee Nation area of Oklahoma, which lies
in the Ozark region.

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Very pretty and interesting, too. I have not been to that part of the country so it looks very different than I had imagines. Our autumn is well underway—ground covered with leaves, maples starting to look bare. Interesting to see what it’s like a little further south.

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Nice pics!! Shows how much we Easterners know-- I never would have thought that Oklahoma had such pretty mountains. They remind me of the Berkshires of Western Mass.
We’re in the midst of a non-Autumn here. Fall has been so warm that the leaves are not turning colors in any dramatic way. They’re largely turning brown and falling off the trees.

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Walden, you are quite a photographer!

There’s nothing like a beautiful autumn day ~ my favorite season!
Thank you

M

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Nice pics.

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Such chronic beauty!! I admire and envy all your talents, Walden! You can do everything and really well, too!! :slight_smile:

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That’s interesting.

I’m only about 150 or so miles from you, and we’re having a respectable show of color. Mostly bright yellow and gold. Our yard has large areas of solid luminous yellow where leaves from the old maples cover the ground.

Best wishes,
Jerry

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Down here in Kentucky the leaves are still green and growing!

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Gorgeous!
We haven’t had much in the way of leaves turning yet, but it’s been a
really dry summer, so they’ll be late, if they change at all before
dropping off.

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Usually when we get a really dry summer, the leaves catch fire and we skip autumn and go straight to wildfire season :stuck_out_tongue:

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You have a season for that? :boggle:

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First class pics Walden.I tip my baseball cap in your direction.

I have been trying to get some pix of autumn in North Lincolnshire this past week but it has just rained and rained all week.I live in hope.

Having said that, there is nothing in these parts as spectacular as the scenery in those shots.

Lovely things to see on a cold wet day :wink:

Slan,
D.

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Lovely photos, Walden. The part of Oklahoma I’ve been in certainly didn’t have hills like those!

For a change of pace, here’s my “album” (15 pics) from a trip to southern Utah in mid-October:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2119170791

Susan

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OOOOHHHH. Those are pretty too Susnfx. I always liked driving through Utah.

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My father took a few of the pictures.

Here in Okra-homa, too…

I think that getting to see such variety is one of the nice things about this state. In the northeast are the Ozark Hills and the crosstimbers, in the southeast are the Ouachitas and the Kiamichis, in the southern central there are the Arbuckles, in the southwest you find the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge which includes Mt. Scott, in the northwest you find the Glass Mountains which are odd-shaped hills that get a glassy appearance in the sunlight, in the Panhandle you have Oklahoma’s only high plains mesa country, and in the central part of the state you have the Southern Plains.

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Susnfx, those are some great shots of some interesting scenery.
I’ve never been in that part of the USA. The closest I’ve come
was when I lived in Cimarron County, in the Oklahoma Panhandle,
for a while as a small child, near the Cimarron Trail and the Black
Mesa. A friend took us to see ancient “hieroglyphs” and dinosaur
tracks in the stone, at Black Mesa, but I was too young to grasp it.
I went back out there, once for a visit, when I was eleven, but we
couldn’t find the dinosaur tracks.

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Great shots, Walden and Susanfx.

I hope we’ll see lots of red and orange leaves here.

Twenty-three years in California, and the only fall colors were yellow and brown (with the exception of the occasional Japanese maple).

I want red!!! :tantrum:

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I’m not too much of a nature photog, but I did capture this shot of a Turkey Vulture in Chatham, ON couple of weeks ago.