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I’m Jeff Folger of Vistaphotography here in Salem MA. As a Salem Photographer I was hired to moderate a weekly fan page for Yankee’s New England Photography FB page which spot lights people’s views of New England.
My goal is to allow anyone to share their view of New England on the page and tell us what they think is really special to them about being in or visiting New England.
If you’d like to visit this page click ohere on Facebook.com/New England Photography.
Once here you can see what views make people think of New England. and maybe you’ll share your views too? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject.. What do you like or dislike about New England???
Jeff Folger
Salem Photographer
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Travel report:
Silas Griffith Inn
Last week we woke up to a partly cloudy morning and said good bye to the Inn, this is a definitely a place to come back to.
Cathy has created a comfortable place for people to stop at. The sitting rooms are set up for adults or kids and they had a wide screen TV with every game console you could imagine hooked to it. So if it rains and you decide to stick around the common room then the kids shouldn’t drive you… too nuts?
Common room
We hit the road and drove to Arlington where we located two covered bridges and I found a stream that was behind an antique store that used to be a grist mill.
grist mill
We then stopped at the Norman Rockwell exhibit which by the way is in a sugar shack! Yes I don’t kid you and our opinion is if you want Norman Rockwell then go to Stockbridge MA. I will say their apple cider doughnuts are great as are the rest of the edibles they have there.
We traveled over 313 into NY and down route 22 until we picked up route 2 back into the Berkshires. Anyone who has never driven that winding steep road
old shed
between the NY border and Williamstown is missing it. It’s too late for this year but make sure you do it next year. The biggest trouble I had was gawking and not hitting the guard rail.
We both feel an entire day needs to be given to North Adams and Williamstown. The MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams and Williams College in the latter are such that on a sunny afternoon you will be hard pressed to not spend days there…
We stopped at the Eagles nest for dinner with the sun setting and while the food was very good and their signature mulled apple cider drink was very warming on a cool afternoon (44 degrees) the service was a little distracted… maybe it was the valley view’s? It’s good to do once but I’d like to hear if anyone else had a different take on this place..
View from Eagles Nest restaurant
We continued in on the Mohawk trail and the sun soon set. My only disappointment was that the color all day had been less than stellar and a waitress at the Eagle’s Nest said she thought the rain had drained the color over night. I mean I had found great color the day before but today the colors were muted all through the south west VT into NY and back along the Mohawk Trail.
Check back through the season as I post trip reports on my journeys through the New England Foliage
Jeff Folger
I have something of an interest in fall foliage. I’m spending a ton of time on Yankee Magazines Facebook fan page for fall foliage. My Vistaphotography fan page has been lagging a bit because of all the questions that pop in from people from all over the globe who plan to visit New England this and every autumn.
This is the cover of Globe weekend fall foliage edition.
I was on the Boston Globe weekend magazine a couple of Sunday’s ago and it coupled with an interview on the Weather Channel with Jim Cantore. I recorded it and put the video up on Youtube… I’ve been interviewed on the radio before (and currently on Thurdays at 11:10AM EST on 980 WCAP in the Merrimack Valley.
Of course the big question is when will peak be? and equally tough to answer is: How do I ensure I don’t miss it? 
I don’t think folks are too happy with some of my answers which may be a bit too truthful… To start, I don’t work for the Tourism Division of any state so what you get from me is what I see and not what it takes to get more visitors into our stores. If there is no color the that’s what I’ll tell you.
Ok, the answer to the first question: I don’t know! I can usually anticipate that between the 28th of Sept and 20th of October we will have great color somewhere in New England… and with a good system of foliage spotter friends throughout New England and talking to forest rangers and people who know a lot more than I do I have educated myself on when to expect good if not “peak” color.
The answer to the 2nd is even worse: If you are coming in for only 3 days, then it will be hit or miss and more likely miss. If you come back each year you will get a feel for it and soon you will have a good idea of when peak happens. I live here in Massachusetts and I don’t hit “peak” every time I head out the door and I have 30days to play with!
Last week, I traveled on Friday the 25th because my readers of my other blog on the Yankee Magazine website are either posting on the Yankee foliage map that peak has come or they’re asking when is peak???
Came by to say hi
Well as of Today Sunday the 27th, “Peak” hasn’t happened. I checked with a fellow photographer in the mid Vermont region and she says that between the heavy frost, rain and wind, some leaves did come down. But luckily it wasn’t a hard rain or wind or it would be a lot worse. Wind, Rain and Frost all together are not a leaf peepers friend.
Keep watching my Yankee blog for foliage updates and if you need more immediacy than that then follow me on Twitter at either foliage reports or my business twitter name Vistaphotos. At this time I’m doing very little regular photography which is unusual since I would think most folks would want to update their family photos with a beautiful fall portrait. But this allows me more time to travel about New England.
Jeff Folger (AKA. Jeff Foliage)
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