First Gold Leaves of Fall
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First Gold Leaves of Fall
Kind of hard to see, but we have some gold showing on some of our trees.
Anyone else?
Yesterday am, I had arm warmers, long sleeve jersey and leg warmers on for a bit.
Anyone else?
Yesterday am, I had arm warmers, long sleeve jersey and leg warmers on for a bit.
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We have a couple of maples nearby that are starting to turn (one in our back yard, one across the street). They always turn early, but this is kind of ridiculous. I think they may be badly stressed since we had virtually no rain the entire month of August. I think the official total was about a third of an inch for the whole month.
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It is still lush and green around here. We're a good month away from seeing leaves turn.
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I think some of ours is due to heat and lack of moisture as noted above. That said, however, we've had a bunch of rain during the last two days. Tomorrow's low is forecast in the mid to high 40's, and tomorrow's high around 79. Should be a great day for the Roadies. The turning leaves are beautiful, but what they portend is not, hence the frowny face in my first post.
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Time to ride north and up Ute Pass for the spectacular aspens.
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Up in BC, I have a Silver Maple in my front yard that started turning about 3 weeks ago. Many of the leaves are now scarlet.
The Burning Bushes are now turning as well.
This was the shortest summer ever. It started very late - a long cold wet spring, with nothing that even resembled summer until late mid-June, and by late August the nights were over at 8:30, the leaves were turning, and like you - I am already wearing knee warmers and wool sweaters.
The Burning Bushes are now turning as well.
This was the shortest summer ever. It started very late - a long cold wet spring, with nothing that even resembled summer until late mid-June, and by late August the nights were over at 8:30, the leaves were turning, and like you - I am already wearing knee warmers and wool sweaters.
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Fall is a four letter word. So is cold. And there are a few others that I try not to think about.
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My only problem with fall in Georgia is that it arrives so late and is so quickly followed by ("w" word deleted).
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You do realize that some(I was going to say most but....) of the posters on this page grew up when your mouth was washed out with soap if you said a four letter word, don't you, so keep it up and you may, I said may, experience an old time treatment from somebody.
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I have to ts that change color. I'm still waiting for my fig trees to ripen and then come the mangoes after that!
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The first couple weeks when the trees start to change colour are beautiful.
But later on, the leaves piled along the curb become a real hazard, particularly when they are wet.
But later on, the leaves piled along the curb become a real hazard, particularly when they are wet.