This fall Connecticut was like Washington DC, back when I was growing up.  (Washington is about 300 km to the south.)  If the weather keeps up like this, I am going to have to move farther north.  :)  

Colors weren't that good this year either--also like DC.  Good colors want a moderately warm and wet summer, followed by a sharp turn to cold.  This year we got drought, which didn't break until the equinox, and then warm and wet weather that has cooled only gradually.  

Plutonium--This is the difference between nostalgia and reality:  We love those monsters, but there is  no way we would want them chugging through our lives right now . . .

The Fates are kind.