Our journey begins...
Amtrak offers fall color tours--but you can find the same thing at the Linne Woods Forest Preserve on a Metra train.
Red maples always make your day a better one.
Moving over to Morton Grove's oft-overlooked Wayside Woods, I like the contrast with the meadow, the clouds, and the trees here.
A picnic shelter nicely blends in here.
Next stop on the Morton Grove Fall Colors Express is the St. Paul Woods Forest Preserve--and a red oak tree.
Along the these banks of the North Branch of the Chicago River there are many sugar maples.
Moving down the line, we now disembark at Miami Woods where a white-tailed deer greets us.
While on the banks of the river along Miami Woods, silver maples are dominant.
Who is up for some orange?
Bur oaks are slow growing. But the end-result is always a masterpiece.
The taller tree is a shagbark hickory--which was dropping nuts profusely when I took this photograph.
Sugar maples again.
Follow the yellow leaf trail in Miami Woods.
Well whaddya know? Amtrak does pass through Morton Grove--although there is not a stop in town--even during fall colors time. I took this photograph at St. Paul Woods.
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