Are the trees going to be reset to normal?

neuroheart wrote:

SirLance_Elot wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

annettemarc wrote:
Never experienced Autumn. Seen many photos of it, and it looks spectacular. I love color!!

Also never experienced Winter. Don't mind it, but as I said I love dramatic color ...

Visit Colorado at the end of October some year, you can probably experience both in one week.

What are you talking about, you can probably experience both in a matter of 48 hours. :P

Well, sure, but it's more likely if someone is here for at least a week ;)

efin98 wrote:
...and I thought New England was bad :shock: :mrgreen:

Tough to beat the Rocky Mountains for weird weather patterns.
Apparently, when my mom first arrived in Colorado, she asked if it would snow the next day. She was told that only fools try to predict the weather, here.
Someone once asked me what weather they should pack for if they were visiting a semi-mountain town called Boulder in mid-March. They thought I was being difficult when I said, "Warm sunny days, cool days, and blizzard." Got very angry about it, actually. But that's literally how it is here, especially in the six months that surround December.

In middle-school I lived in Colorado Springs (about an hour or so south of Denver, for those that don't know), and I remember days I'd go to school in shorts because it was 80ish and I still had most my SoCal clothes, and by the time school got out, I'd have to run home because it was freezing cold. Literally!

I have a vivid memory of a picnic gone crazy... A lovely day in the park with a bunch of family and friends (birthday party). Warm and sunny. I'm throwing a Frisbee at a cousin and a shadow passes overhead, I look up towards Pike Peak (a prominent mountain in CoSprngs), and coming over the mountain are the darkest clouds I'd ever seen! CO-native Aunt Holly was first to realize what was happening, and starts shouting, rounding up people, as I get dinged in the head by a 25-cent-gumball-sized hailstone (more startled than injured). Within minutes, we were in the middle of a windy thunder/hail/rain-storm. From balmy to cold and blustery. It was crazy!

Took the party back to my Aunt Holly's house, which was on a hillside, and ate cake and ice cream while watching an amazing lightning show. Was really awesome, actually. Heh.

efin98 wrote:
...and here we are brought up with the joke "if you don't like the weather just wait a minute" ...

My aunt used to say the same thing...

:-)