South Shore/Cape Cod Leaf Peeping, 10/12-10/13

A warm autumn has slowed down the usual leaves-changing-color process. 

We traverse the region for this site, and have a pretty good idea of where color is showing.

It is a slow change. Most of Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable Counties are still very green.

You may live in one of these areas, and you may be saying "Hey, I live in one of those areas, and I see orange/red/yellow up in some trees in my neighborhood," and I would agree. This picture, and the two above it, are from the Outer Cape. However, peak season isn't here yet.

If you go up Route 3 from Bourne to Quincy for whatever reason, the trees will be almost 100% green until you get north of Duxbury. By Weymouth or so, you have color, and if you go inland, you have even more color. It hasn't peaked there either, but you escape that Sea Of Green vibe that Plymouth has.

Eastern Massachusetts is pretty flat, and it is loaded with pine. You can't get those views of foliage that you see in New Hampshire, where you are looking down on a wide valley where the colors suggest that some mammoth supreme being has poured Lucky Charms on top of a forest.

Nope... You are pretty much after individual trees here. As you can see in the first picture at the top, we even settle for individual branches of trees, especially early in the season.

These pics are from Wellfleet, Eastham, Brewster, Weymouth and Braintree. We do a lot of leaf peeping, and will share our findings with you as the season progresses.