New England Bound in 5 Days!

#5-AUTUMN

New England is known for Autumn; the smell of soft decay, the weather of low seventies and plenty of sunshine, the crisp air in the morning and the crunchy leaves on the ground, and the first of hot cocoa and high school football and most importantly; the bright, glorious, changing colors.

You don't get a prettier fall anywhere else but in New England.

The White Mountains of New Hampshire was named number 2 in the world for best places to see the leaves in fall.

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

-  Albert Camus

"A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made.  The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air."-   Eric Sloane

"The hazy, cloudless skies of Indian Summer. Leaves scurrying down the street before the wind. The cold shiver from an arctic blast. Indian Summer. The last warmth of the sun. Chilly mornings and glorious warm afternoons. The Harvest Moon. The Hunter's Moon. The Rainy Season. Dry corn stalks clattering in the wind. The touch of frost on grass and window pane. The smell of burning leaves."

-   Keith C. Heidorn  

"Autumn begins with a subtle change in the light, with skies
a deeper blue, and nights that become suddenly clear and
chilled.  The season comes full with the first frost, the
disappearance of migrant birds, and the harvesting of
the season's last crops."-   Glenn Wolff and Jerry Dennis 

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."-   Elizabeth Lawrence

"It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north,
warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue,
the shores a bank of solid gold."-   Sigurd Olson

"October gave a party;

The leaves by hundreds came-

The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,

And leaves of every name.

The Sunshine spread a carpet,

And everything was grand,

Miss Weather led the dancing,

Professor Wind the band."

-   George Cooper, October's Party

waking up to an day with these colors might possibly the best way to wake up.

oh new england.