Not much color change here yet. There wasn't even much near Suches, where I was riding last weeked. I hope to get another ride in up there before the leaves make it too dangerous.
Yeah, Tuesday, after a solid day and a half of rain, our ride in and around Land Between The Lakes was a little scary at times. Not so much leaves, but pine needles in huge heaping piles, and always on a curve. I also learned a new road hazard on Sunday (prior to the rain) when we entered ILL: corn! In our area, cotton bolls in the road aren't slippery, but the equipment is as wide as as a two-lane road. Up there, they have been harvesting the corn, and there was spilled grain, again in a curve. Navigated around it, but it would have been like loose gravel to ride through. As for autumn color, we are in the wrong part of the country for anything other than green, yellow, and a bit of yellow, except for when someone has planted a tree in their yard that gets a nice deep red.
Your story just gets worse...the plastic actually BROKE?!