This is the view Saturday night. Some of the trees have gone chrome-yellow.
Usually the fall colors have come and the leaves have gone by mid-October. Aside from one surprise morning frost, it has been unseasonably warm.
Have I ever mentioned that my farm is an incredibly beautiful place? I wish I didn’t have to leave so often, but the life of a traveling lecturer/consultant involves a lot more time in airports and hotels than sitting on the porch watching the sunset. Over the next few years I hope to be changing that – I’m going to spend more time in the shop and less time on the road; I’ll only take short consulting gigs that are interesting (which means: incident response and emergency missions to pull rabbits out of hats) – the older generation needs to ease of of the work-force and not hog all the good gigs.
It’s a bit hard to stop and take pictures of other people’s houses, but this house up the street about 5 miles from me has some impressive Maple trees.
There’s one near the post office that is usually yellow and radioactive red. It drops its leaves early and I missed it, again.
The shift in when the trees drop their leaves is probably another sign of humanity’s impending doom. At least some of it’s pretty!
Gorgeous. I love the mix of completely bare trees, brown, yellow, and green deciduous, and evergreen trees in the first picture.
And when all the leaves have fallen you can make shoosh shoosh noises in the golden carpet with your bootied feet.
And a rainbow!
Swooshing through the leaves is the best. I recommend doing it with abandon.
Swooshing through the leaves is the best.
It’s great!
When I was a kid I used to jump in leaves a lot, until I jumped in a dead cat and now I’m a lot more careful.
Here https://sta.sh/01g39wjuzdtb is a photo I took yesterday. This autumn has been unusual. It was warmer and drier than normally. Here most trees (for example, maples) have already dropped their leaves. Some other trees (birch trees, oak trees) still have some leaves remaining. This is certainly unusual for November in my part of the world.
Ieva Skrelebe@#5:
Here https://sta.sh/01g39wjuzdtb is a photo I took yesterday. This autumn has been unusual. It was warmer and drier than normally. Here most trees (for example, maples) have already dropped their leaves. Some other trees (birch trees, oak trees) still have some leaves remaining. This is certainly unusual for November in my part of the world.
That’s really beautiful – I love the colors and the sky and the water.
The unusual November weather seems world-wide. It’s like the planet’s climate is changing or something!
It was the abundance of large-sized slugs and snails one year that got me…
Marcus @#6
Me too. Yesterday, as I was walking in that place, I kept thinking about how this planet is too beautiful for humans to destroy it. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening.