Your favorite autumn drive

[D. D. Olson]

Maybe I'm pushing ahead too fast, but I feel autumn approaching like a screaming headache after a hard night of drinking.  The woods at our farm is lovely in the fall, but my favorite drive during the last week of September into October is around Lake Pepin on the Mississippi between Minnesota and Wisconsin. 

The campus where I work has the kind of maples that turn fire-red in the fall.  I try to get outside as much as I can during the fall at work.

Where do you go to enjoy the fall colors?

[P.A.]

I love to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Natchez Trace Parkway in the fall. I am much more likely to drive the Trace becasuse it is pretty close to home. The Blue Ridge is about 200 miles away and the Trace is only 25. For the last few years I have tried to make both of these drives.

[D. D. Olson]

I drove part of the Trace once. My aunt used to live in Hohenwald, TN and we drove south into Alabama on it. It wasn't in the fall, but it was still lovely.

[P.A.]

Hohenwald is about 40 miles from here. When I used to work as an adjunct professor for Tennessee State University I taught an extension class there for a year and I drove the Trace to get there once a week. It made the drive the best park of my day.

[Quinn]

Any number of back roads through the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania

[D. D. Olson]

What a warm and cozy picture -- makes me want to stoke up a fire in the wood stove!

[Stir Young]

I guess most of the roads I've featured on my "Leelanau" blogs would make for very pretty fall scenes. Maybe I'll feature some in a couple of months.

[D. D. Olson]

That will be fun, Stir. I've been enjoying your blog about Leelanau.

[D. D. Olson]

Yes, the bluffs along the Mississippi near where I live are so unique and beautiful, too.

[Chez moi]

I love the woods when they go yellow; we don't get a lot of red here. The beeches in the forest of Chinon are especially graceful. Of course, if I go for a drive, I am very soon out of the car and looking for mushrooms.