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Lessons from Clean-up — 1LinerWeds

Dan Antion
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This is the time of year that we spend time cleaning up the beauty that is autumn in New England and preparing for whatever winter in New England might bring to us. One of those tasks is to get our cars in the garage. We don’t actually like parking there, but it’s necessary. Of course, during the late spring and summer, the garage morphs into project space and that has to be reset to clear and vacant.

It so much easier deciding to throw something out when you have to stick two cars in the garage.

Autumn observation — One-Liner Wednesday by Linda G. Hill

The autumn leaves are only with us for a short while, so the gallery will include them for as long as they last.

Red orange tree
Bright autumn leaves
puddle leaves
My favorite puddle gets messy in autumn
back lit leaf
Not every leaf gets sucked up by the crew
back lit leaf
Not every leaf gets sucked up by the crew
stormy afternoon fall tree
during a brief break in the storm
Colt dome
The Colt Dome is visible through the trees.
Great River Park
Autumn at Great River Park
Colt dome river
The CT River is still running low despite recent storms
great river park entrance
Great River Park entrance
flag red tree
Flag at Great River Park

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70 responses to “Lessons from Clean-up — 1LinerWeds”

  1. Terri Webster Schrandt Avatar
    Terri Webster Schrandt

    Beautiful autumn scenes, Dan! I wish I could get hubby to move projects around to fit all our vehicles into our shop! You’re motivated!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Willow. We used to only get one car in, and I always hated having to clean the other car while clearing the driveway. This is way better.

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      1. Terri Webster Schrandt Avatar
        Terri Webster Schrandt

        It’s Terri 😆

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  2. wrookieschu Avatar
    wrookieschu

    Beautiful autumnal colours Dan!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Wayne!

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  3. Sheree Avatar
    Sheree

    Stunning fall colours Dan

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Sheree!

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  4. restlessjo Avatar
    restlessjo

    Such a beautiful season, Dan xx

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Jo!

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  5. willowdot21 Avatar
    willowdot21

    Beautiful autumn 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 photos.

    We have been decorating and I have also found it’s easier to clear out “rubbish and clutter rather than putting it back in a fresh room”

    We have a long thin double garage which was built in the sixties….cars were small and thinner then. So even though it’s a long space it’s too narrow for most cars so we all use our drives or the road …. It’s a real nuisance!! ….lol 😆😆😆

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I know that feeling. Find a place for this thing I haven’t used in ages or toss it?

      The previous owner had a metal working business, so he built the garage big enough for a car, his truck and tool storage in the back. I stole the back and added it to my workshop. We can’t ever have bigger cars than we have today, but I don’t think that’s a problem.

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  6. Darlene Avatar
    Darlene

    Keep those autumn leaves photo coming. I can never get enough of them. Good luck cleaning out the garage.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m glad you like them, Darlene. The cars are in. Now we focus on the outside for a while.

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  7. Murphy’s Law Avatar
    Murphy’s Law

    Good one-liner Dan. We have never had a garage, but I understand what you’re saying. A garage becomes the workshop/storage space during spring, summer and fall, but everything changes so you can get the cars in for winter.

    Beautiful shots of colorful foliage. Tons of leaves on the ground here, yet the trees don’t look like they have shed much. Weird!

    Have a great day.

    ginger🦋

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      It’s our nature to fill open spaces, Ginger. I’ve gotten better at keeping the garage clean enough during the year so it’s only a one-day task to get the cars in, but it’s a long day.

      Leaves are everywhere but we still have lots of green trees. It’s an odd autumn.

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  8. Judy@NewEnglandGardenAndThread Avatar
    Judy@NewEnglandGardenAndThread

    Our garage always holds vehicles but the sides and front get bulky from those summer projects so I’ve been working on clearing those areas myself. I’m grateful our recycling center is only a couple of miles down the road. :-) Happy clearing.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      With my projects, I’d be afraid of damaging one of the cars if we left them in. Plus, I park my utility trailer in the garage beginning with the day I get dirt for the buckets my wife uses in her garden. She always refreshes some of the containers. I back the trailer in and we work out of that.

      When our town switched to the wheeled bins for trash pickup, they let you buy a second bin for $75. We bought one. We don’t use it very often, but it comes in handy for weeks like this. They no longer allow you to buy a second bin, but if you have one, you can still use it.

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  9. GP Avatar
    GP

    No one does autumn like New England!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      It’s true, GP. It’s the best time of year up here.

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  10. Teagan Riordain Geneviene Avatar
    Teagan Riordain Geneviene

    Thanks for showcasing the beautiful leaves, Dan. No color yet here. In autumn I rarely see any except yellow. I guess red and orange leaf trees just don’t tend to do well in the climate. Good luck with the garage project. Hugs. 🍂 🎃. 🍁

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m glad you like these, Teagan. We don’t get a lot of red, so they really stand out. The maple trees turn yellow and orange, and they usually are the first to turn. It’s so pleasant to walk this time of year.

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  11. Frank Hubeny Avatar
    Frank Hubeny

    Beautiful autumn colors. I like the leaves scattered in the puddle.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m glad you like them, Frank. I have a thing for puddles.

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  12. Tanja Avatar
    Tanja

    Great autumn photos

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Tanja.

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  13. Oddment Avatar
    Oddment

    That photo taken in the storm break is a great one. There’s a peculiar light that comes in that mid-storm moment, and you captured it. I also like your featured photo — the twin stoplights and the twin arms on the light pole, the whole contrast between Nature and Mechanics. A good start to my day, which, by the way, does happen to involve the garage. I have no idea who slops it up.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      It’s the season for gremlins, Maureen. I suspect that’s who slops up the garage. I”m glad you like the pictures.

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  14. Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶 Avatar
    Nancy’s Notes 🖊️🎶

    Lovely photos and a great line about fitting two cars in the garage. Since our eldest granddaughter is now of driving age and we’re not schlepping around kids like we used to, our cars have gotten significantly smaller …. something I am not complaining about!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m with you on the smaller cars, Nancy. That fact allowed me to carve 10′ off the back of the garage and add it to my workshop. My car is still big enough to stick an 8′ piece of lumber in, but not much bigger.

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  15. lois Avatar
    lois

    At the end of the news last night, they showed fall foliage. No photos from Florida! 😂 No one does it like New England does it. So pretty.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Lois. It is a beautiful season up here.

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  16. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    You have the loveliest leaves in New England! The year I lived in the Boston area was one of the prettiest falls I’ve ever seen. Good luck on that garage project…time is ticking away. 🙃

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      We’re good. The cars spend a rainy night safe and dry inside last night. Now I just have to keep those leave out.

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  17. Rivergirl Avatar
    Rivergirl

    Our foliage started early and I’m surprised we still have as much as we do.
    It’s my favorite time of year!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      It doesn’t get any better than autumn up here.

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  18. John W. Howell Avatar
    John W. Howell

    Great photos, Dan. We are about the only two in our neighborhood who have their cars in the garage. Which leads me to wonder why folks leave expensive cars out in the weather and keep a bunch of cheap junk in the garage.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      The guy across the street from me has a 3-car garage full of junk and three cars outside. We leave them outside from April to October, but I get them back in every year.

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      1. John W. Howell Avatar
        John W. Howell

        I still wonder about the guy across the street.

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  19. Dave Astor Avatar
    Dave Astor

    Lovely autumn-leaves photos, Dan! A seasonal silver lining to cars soon needing to be in garages. :-)

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I love this time of year, Dave.

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  20. Dan Hen Avatar
    Dan Hen

    You certainly live in a beautiful part of the country.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Autumn in New England is tough to beat, Dan.

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  21. circadianreflections Avatar
    circadianreflections

    Autumn looks beautiful there. I got a little fixated on the image of the entrance to the park and that telephone pole behind the splendid tree and the tree branch on the left that looks as if it’s climbing along the wires to the pole and intertwining with all the things and wires. Weird, I know but, that caught my eye this morning. 🤪

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      That image is deceiving. The entrance is a very steep hill. The telephone pole sits on top of a levee. The park is designed to absorb water when the river floods, and the parking lot is in the lowest portion. I’m glad you like the pictures.

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  22. marianallen Avatar
    marianallen

    Thanks again for sharing your New England leaves. Sometimes we have a beautiful autumn, but this year they just woke up one morning and decided to fall off. Boo!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      It’s my pleasure to share. We still have a lot of green leaves on the trees. I’m not sure everyone got the memo.

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      1. marianallen Avatar
        marianallen

        LOL!

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  23. Tails Around the Ranch Avatar
    Tails Around the Ranch

    Necessity is the mother of invention…too often whether we like it or not. ;) Kudos for working on making room for the two cars. Cold and ice don’t make for good companions with cars in the winter. We’ve had a couple of slight frosts this week so I know the drill about getting things winterized. Luckily I started early so I’m not running around in a wet snow at 8 PM at night.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      We had one day where we had frost on the windshields. That was the signal to get them inside. I hate scraping that nasty little layer of epoxy frost.

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  24. Suzette Benjamin Avatar
    Suzette Benjamin

    Great autumn gallery, Dan. I love this time of year; each day brings new outdoor scenes, scenes of which I never grow tired. I love your close-ups of the leaves and the entrance to Great River Park. Beautiful view of the stormy skies, great capture. Hope your moving around of things is going well. The benefits of a garage in winter are a definite plus.
    I hope you have a wonderful day.

    P.S. Are the red trees, Maple trees? Just curious.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m glad you liked these, Suzette. I’m not sure if the deep red trees are a type of maple. Most maples don’t get that red. We have three (young) Red Maples. The leaves turn red in the fall, but not that deep. I might have to scan one close up.

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      1. Suzette Benjamin Avatar
        Suzette Benjamin

        Thanks Dan. I do not know trees and plants very well, I may have read that there are dark red maple trees species; but I am not sure. Fascinating.

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        1. Dan Antion Avatar
          Dan Antion

          I found out, Suzette. It’s a Japanese Maple.

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          1. Suzette Benjamin Avatar
            Suzette Benjamin

            Ah, excellent. We have those here in the parks. Thanks Dan. Cheers.

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  25. Author Jan Sikes Avatar
    Author Jan Sikes

    What a wonderful array of autumn photos, Dan! Necessity of often a great motivator for cleaning out things. Thank you for sharing!

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  26. Liz Gauffreau Avatar
    Liz Gauffreau

    The best foliage we’ve seen this year has been right outside our windows. Go figure!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Hey, at least you didn’t have to drive a few hours to see it ;-)

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      1. Liz Gauffreau Avatar
        Liz Gauffreau

        Actually we did drive a few hours to see the lack of foliage.

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        1. Dan Antion Avatar
          Dan Antion

          Awww.

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          1. Liz Gauffreau Avatar
            Liz Gauffreau

            We had a fun day together anyway!

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  27. bruce@ssa Avatar
    bruce@ssa

    Dan, our leaves appear to be less than cooperative this year in throwing forth some yellows and reds. A lot of them appear to be headed straight from green to brown. Still, it hasn’t stopped us from taking it all in. Regardless of the choice of colors, it is an amazing time for our region as well. As with Liz’s comments, some of the best foliage we’ve seen has been out our home’s windows!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      We have a lot of trees that are still green. I fear they will drop their leaves in a storm before they change. Still, I’m enjoying every bit of what we’ve seen so far.

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    2. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      We have a lot of trees that are still green. I fear they will drop their leaves in a storm before they change. Still, I’m enjoying every bit of what we’ve seen so far.

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  28. memadtwo Avatar
    memadtwo

    We don’t have those colors yet. Yours are beautiful, especially against that azure sky. (K)

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Kerfe. We still have a lot of green leaves. It’s been an odd autumn.

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      1. memadtwo Avatar
        memadtwo

        Last year the trees just turned brown all of a sudden and shed their leaves. I’m hoping for a different result this year.

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        1. Dan Antion Avatar
          Dan Antion

          I’m worried that that’s what’s going to happen to the remaining leaves.

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  29. petespringer Avatar
    petespringer

    Oh, man. That’s impressive. We don’t get those kinds of colors in Northern California.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Pete. It’s one benefit of living in New England.

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  30. Jennie Avatar
    Jennie

    Our fall foliage has been lovely, in spite of a dry summer. Yes, when the cars go into the garage, it’s much easier to purge.

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