gallantwarrior
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- Jul 25, 2011
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I didn't know that. Obviously, I'm not allergic. I loved riding along the Continental Divide and enjoying the smells, including juniper. I took a few berries home to make sauerbraten.Man, I love junipers. Love the shape, love the smell, everything. Too bad they don't grow up here.The best falls I recalls (sorry, couldn't help it) was as a young lump and as far as you could see maple trees and rolling hills.
For a high desert city, Albuquerque has a LOT of trees and an amazing variety of them. So we get all the fall colors here in the city. But in the rural areas it is mostly cottonwood, birch, and aspen with brilliant gold fall leaves--some patches of red maple. Especially in the Fourth of July Canyon area south of us, the red maple is stunning in the fall.
I would like to visit Wisconsin or New England or other areas in the fall for the full array of wonderful fall colors.
I like high desert, especially at dusk and dawn, the big sky's and those trees you speak of, throw in a river or lake and there's
Lumpy, sucking up the good life .
We live in the high desert only it's junipers, far from my favorite trees but the cascades are within a 1/2 hr..
They are very high in allergens though. We have a huge juniper at the front of our house that is grandfathered in, but I've heard there is a city ordinance that new junipers can't be established for that reason.