Comments on: Haunted in the Autumn Landscape https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/ Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Tue, 01 Feb 2022 05:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: A Vespa Ride to the Pump Station - Scooter in the Sticks https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-49032 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 05:05:44 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-49032 […] certainly appreciate the picturesque landscape in which I am able to ride but I don’t make such meandering detours when I’m in the […]

]]> By: The Heart of the Ride - Scooter in the Sticks https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-46993 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 05:12:07 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-46993 […] Autumn almost escaped. It’s the swiftest of seasons. The landscape changes from green to orange to a drab, monochromatic scene as the trees surrender to the power of autumn. I feel a physical and emotional quickening as time churns in me as it drags me toward winter. I know something is ending. And something else begins. […]

]]> By: Existential Angst - Scooter in the Sticks https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-46820 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:06:23 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-46820 […] the world drift by while I ride, stopping to look at the leaves on the ground, breathe in the fragrance of autumn, I’m grateful for the […]

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-45794 Sat, 04 Jan 2020 02:02:18 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-45794 In reply to Alessandro Melillo.

Thank you for your kind wishes. I hope 2020 is a great year for us both.

]]> By: Alessandro Melillo https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-45792 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:19:41 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-45792 In reply to Steve Williams.

I hope so! Temperatures suddenly dropped some days ago, I’ll look for my long johns 🙂
Chestnut trees, what a pity. As for the ginkgo, I wonder how a female tree can bear fruits without a male one in the neighbourhood; sometimes pollen acts in mysterious ways. Or maybe it rides a Vespa.
Enjoy this winter and this 2020, and godspeed!

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-45769 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 14:19:30 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-45769 In reply to Alessandro Melillo.

I can only imagine how beautiful the landscape in Tuscany might be. I’ve never made it farther south than Bolzano and Cortina. There the mountains are majestic and the riding would seem exquisite. Riding where you are between the sea and the mountains would be exceptional.

No chestnut trees here anymore. The Chestnut Blight ravaged North America a hundred years ago and removed them from the landscape. It’s said at one time a squirrel could travel from the coast to the Mississippi River without ever leaving a chestnut tree.

We do have Ginkgo trees in town and their leaves become stunning in autumn. Every once in a while someone will plant a Ginkgo of the wrong sex and it will dump a lot of the foul-smelling fruit.

It’s been wet here a lot lately. But soon the weather will change and I’ll be on the road again. Hope you find the same opportunity!

]]> By: Alessandro Melillo https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-45754 Mon, 16 Dec 2019 06:12:17 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-45754 Autumn. I was born at the very beginning of autumn in a time when September was still an autumn month; I’m lucky enough to live in a part of Tuscany where the sea is just three km away and the nearly 2000 m tall mountains just five kms away in the opposite direction. This means that commuting is done parallel to the coastline and venturing into the mountains is often just a diversion; that kind of diversion I start looking for in autumn. Chestnut trees fill the hills and lower mountains, with their wide slippery leaves, but we have no gravel roads here unless you start climbing headed to the mountain paths and the mountain tops.
And another heartbeating late autumn task is my ginkgo quest; a lot of detours just to see if all the ginkgo trees I know have turned yellow or not.
This year, sadly, heavy rain is pretty frequent and I’m stuck into a CH4 car to commute to work. 20 km of thoughts like “oh, if only I could have ridden my Vespa”…

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-45647 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:36:02 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-45647 In reply to Doug.

Perhaps one day I’ll be able to say the same.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-45646 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:35:37 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-45646 In reply to Michael.

Time really flies. And I’m still here sitting on the blog post of your epic journey. Retirement might be the bookend I need to finish it.

Congratulations on retirement, riding again, and living life. And of your dramatic elevation of photographic vision. The stuff you post on your blog is exceptional. I look but don’t comment. Bad on me. I will be commenting on your exceptional “Equivalents” piece. Amazing stuff.

For now, I’m still about dead leaves. Spent another hour this morning raking them to the street for the township to come and take them away. It’s a balmy 48F now. Should be riding but am diverted by other tasks. That’s a failure…

]]> By: Doug https://scooterinthesticks.com/2019/11/haunted-in-the-autumn-landscape/#comment-45645 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:28:05 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=9289#comment-45645 Just the opposite. Calmed and serenely content by the autumns past and present. Thanks for your contribution Steve.

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