Foliage Check: South Shore, 10/20--10/22

We took to the streets to show you some foliage around SE Massachusetts.

We worked a route from the Middleboro/Rochester/Lakeville area up to the Bridgewater/Halifax/Plympton area then down the Irish Riviera from Duxbury through Plymouth to Bourne. We also threw in some Quincy shots, like the one above, from a previous article.

Sunflower?

Southeastern Massachusetts, while technically New England, is the weak sister when it comes to foliage. We don't have the mountain valley views that you see in New Hampshire. We have an overabundance of pine trees, which don't turn into pretty colors. These colors don't arrive until later in the season- Cape Cod turns in November, while parts of Maine peak in September.

This late peak means that our foliage has to outlast October, which is a stormy month and the beginning of Nor'easter season. After we publish this article, for instance, we have to write a "Nor'easter this Saturday" article. This Nor'easter, and her heavy winds, will effectively end foliage season.

This is sort of the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree of the foliage article. I'm quite fond of it.

Wires get into our shots a lot.

We aren't above aiming at individual branches, especially before the season peaks.

SE Massachusetts is just starting to peak. We peak North to south, inland to coastal. Everything aside from the Cape is usually played out by Halloween.

We intend to do a southern South Shore piece and a South Coast piece before then.

We even plan to do an early November article for Cape Cod, if the storm leaves any foliage up.

We shoot out of the car window a lot, although we always pull over first.

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I think that we were actually driving for this pic.

A sunny day greatly helps a foliage photographer.

This looks like effective use of foreground, but in reality it is just Stephen shooting at individual branches because he went farther south than the peak foliage did.

Monponsett Lake, Stacey's namesake.

This may be Bourne, but it is mainland Bourne. We haven't crossed the bridges yet for a foliage article.

Much like the sun, still waters are much-loved by the foliage photographer.

This is the herring run in Bourne.

Remember how I was saying that we shoot at individual branches from time to time? Here, we resort to shooting at individual leaves.

Mother Nature is doing the heavy lifting.

Technically not foliage, but it got into the article.

We got out of the car for this one.

This is Cape Cod, the video below is from Brockton (because when someone says"fall foliage," you immediately think "Brockton"), and we'll be back soon with more pics!