Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!1g2000vbx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: So, any good leaf-viewing lately? Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 18 Message-ID: <9897690f-2a27-49f9-b131-a63bbc028b63@1g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.138.0.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1319458012 10915 127.0.0.1 (24 Oct 2011 12:06:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 1g2000vbx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=170.138.0.11; posting-account=d_4qMQkAAAAoC3cPt9leEr6UZXdXfvYA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ARLUEHCNK X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0E),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170237 On Oct 22, 4:36=A0pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > Grew up in the the mid-west, but moved to Texas, then LA. I miss lottsa > things about the mid-west (thundershowers, warm summers, etc.) that I > also found in Tokyo. This time of year, it's leaf-viewing. Anyone making > any trips? I remember both Inogashira and Kouganei parks gave me my fixes= . > > I'm thinking of taking a couple days off and visiting my daughter on the > East Coast just to see some reds, yellows, and oranges. > Hasn't been a great year here in Tennessee. We had a big cold snap a month or so ago, and a lot of rain with high wind that blew some leaves off, then it got really warm and then cold again. It's confused the trees, I think. I was in the Smokies last weekend and it was so- so; lots of trees shed their leaves early this year, leaving large gray gaps in the scenery. John W.