Fall Colors

Hi Everyone!  I’m sorry it’s been awhile since my last post.  Being the webguy for over 200 websites tends to do that to you!

Well, the popular question at the moment whirls around when you should come to the area to see the fall colors.  As with every year my answer is. . . “who knows!?”.  The picture above is from October 22, of last year.  Yet each year’s color is at the whim of mother nature.  You see, very basically rich fall colors are produced by a period of sunny, dry days followed by cold frosty nights.  Get a few of those, and boom!, it’s “color-rama” time.  However if the autumn is wet and cloudy everthing just turns yellow and dies.  Most years we’re somewhere in the middle.   If you’d like to learn more about how color change happens here’s some interesting reading from the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin.

The best way to keep track of the changing colors in Wisconsin is probably at the Fall Color Report page from the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.