...before the storm strips the leaves.
A record shot before those improbably red maple leaves blow into the next county. Feels so good to have rain!
October Glory is a female variety with less potential for causing allergies. (Ogren, Thomas (2015). The Allergy-Fighting Garden. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-1-60774-491-7.)
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Some of our maple trees have held on to their leaves. At times we still have large plumes of smoke mingling with clouds and rain. Depends on the wind. Sad.
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An unusual hazy smoke shot through wild grasses in the back forty. I worry. The heat and dryness is not normal here, or rather, the new normal.
As the governor of Oregon writes, “… in the past decade, as our summers have grown longer, hotter and drier, our lush forests have turned into tinderboxes.” New York Times, August 3 2021
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Or where's Waldo on a windy morning…
Upper right quadrant in blue shirt. The copter landed in a tree.
Be careful, everyone!
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“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."
~John Howard Bryant, American poet, farmer, 1800s, attended Rensselaer School (now Polytechnic Institute), Troy, New New York
Spending time out back admiring trees, the Cascade Range*, and listening to birds and wind.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Range
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