What is with Americans' fascination with autumn foliage?

Because it's the most gorgeous natural spectacle to behold.

Anonymous in Europe wrote:

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Um... are you blind?

European impressionists never were fascinated by it.

Mr. Natural wrote:

Anonymous in Europe wrote:

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Um... are you blind?

lol, after visiting some of America's most "famous" cities and seeing their inhabitants, I wish I was!

Anonymous in Europe wrote:

Mr. Natural wrote:

Um... are you blind?

lol, after visiting some of America's most "famous" cities and seeing their inhabitants, I wish I was!

What was it about urban inhabitants that upset you?

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

Albert Camus wrote:

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

But why love the leaf? It is dying. You cannot make love to it.

(I'm surprised my handle hasn't been stolen yet.)

Splendid color comes to everyone's neighborhood. It's not unbearably hot anymore. It's a nice vivid show of nature before the bleak death and short days of winter. Does this actually have to be explained?

It's not the autum colors (not colours) that Americans enjoy but the appreciation for the parallel occurance of cooler temperatures and lower humidity bringing a level of comfort to fall marathon training. However the changing foliage does make for fascinating brackgounds for cross-county action photographs.

#LeafColorsMatter, you heartless foreigner.

Typical European in a complete stupor, wondering why something so obvious grand in America can be popular. Ugh.

The pictures you see are heavily filtered by Instagram. It doesn't really look like that

Europeans don't even have Thanksgiving. They simply don't understand that you reap what you sow. To an average European it's you reap what the government gives you. It's a continent soaked in Detroit mentality (and facing a Detroit destiny).

Europeans cut down all their trees before they got to appreciate autumn foliage.

Manet wrote:

Europeans cut down all their trees before they got to appreciate autumn foliage.

And what were left B17's took care of by carpet bombing. Took out a few train depots too.

Manet wrote:

Europeans cut down all their trees before they got to appreciate autumn foliage.

And what were left B17's took care of by carpet bombing. Took out a few train depots too.

I need to explain the rules of trolling. You violated a number of them. A"?" is not the effort worthy of a troll. Also you start two completely different trolls in the same thread.Start a different thread in an hour under a different handle.

Anonymous in Europe wrote:

Mr. Natural wrote:

Um... are you blind?

lol, after visiting some of America's most "famous" cities and seeing their inhabitants, I wish I was!

It's a wonderful phenomenon in nature.

America, Canada, & East Asia gets the red fall color. A large portion of Europe only gets the yellow fall color & less variance in colors overall.

Visit the U.S. in the fall & you'll get the real deal.