Friday, December 15th It's overcast.. but it's not cold.. it's also not hot.. and, it's the last day of school for 2023...
Thursday, December 14th
Monday, December 11th As the sun sets on a Sunday evening. It's a cold and frosty morning... Most of the color is on the ground! The season is mostly fall-en. It's probably as close as we're going to get to snow on the ground.
Sunday, December 10th The cold front that blew through last night has brought a return to fall, but tonight winter will arrive as the temperature plunges to 34°. At least that's the foretelling of the prognosticators... But, the winds of the night did a good job of stripping the color…
Friday, December 8th The day is dark and dreary. Warmish and damp. When I woke up this morning it was already 67°. Water was standing in the driveway. Windrows of blown damp leaves rested in piles like sand dunes on a beach. Out back the red oak leaves are falling..…
Thursday, December 7th It's another chilly morning on the back porch. The temperature is 44°. I must admit, we've had a remarkable run of sunrises and sunsets. Just beautiful starts and finishes each day.
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Friday, December 1st After more than 2 inches of rain yesterday, this morning dawned very, very foggy... 100% humidity. And it feels anything but fall like outside. The temperature this morning is 66°. But, the fall color is still working its way into the landscape...
Tuesday, November 28th I was out enjoying the sunset on the back porch where it was still but cool when I realized that I never posted this post this morning... So as I enjoy the relatively cool 57° with the sun just touching the top of the trees still... I…
Monday, November 27th This morning the pre-dawn light brightened a chili start to the day. The low for the night bottom doubted 39° according to my phone. The morning light tends to add more color to the trees than is actually there.. strangely the predominant color around here as we…
Saturday, November 25th On Thanksgiving Day I saw an image of my red oak tree from 4 years ago. In that image, the tree had already gone through its entire fall color change. So I guess this year fall is a little slow in coming... But, as you can see,…
Wordless Wednesday, November 22nd
Tuesday, November 21st
Monday, November 20th As we move towards Thanksgiving bits of color are beginning to show. But even so, the predominant color is green.. except at sunrise.
Monday, November 13th It's a rainy cool Monday. While the temperature is only 61°, the dampness makes it feel much cooler.. though the wind blowing from the north probably sucks just a few degrees out of the air. It's pretty much been just like this since Friday. Though after our…
Friday, November 10th It's time to switch our focus from the sunrise to the Red oak for the fall. For the past week I have noticed the beginning's of fall color. It started out as just a bit of lighter green scattered through the canopy. But as the week has…
Sunday It's a cool 66° this morning and the light rain is falling. Though, the thunder makes it sound like it should be raining harder... I spent yesterday playing that fun game of new computer updating. I really understand why that game exists. But for some reason to have to…
Friday It's another foggy morning. Even the sounds are muffled. The temperature is 71°. And with the moisture in the air it's a cool 71°.... It's the end of another week. We are getting closer and closer to the Christmas weekend. I really don't find myself with much to say…
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Tuesday It's another warm one today. It's already 71°. The prognosticators say this is what we have to look forward to for the rest of the week. We might see it cool down after this coming weekend. But the progression of color in my backyard goes on. Although the color…
Monday The morning is warm and foggy... 67° with a dense fog advisory. The prognosticators are foretelling if a high temperature today is 79°. Not a very fall-like weather pattern we're having this week... With highs of about 80 or above for the next 7 days. My sons came over…
Sunday It's a pleasant 64° out this morning. Overcast, still... Not a breeze blowing. The progression of color is moving from the tree to the ground. I find myself in that in between space. I've ordered a new laptop because the one here at the house has been getting glitchy.…
Friday And just like that, the weather, she has turned on a dime... The morning temperature is 64°. And the humidity is up. Which makes the fall colors pop. At this point I almost feel like I'm living in one of GC Myers red tree paintings. For my whole life…
Thursday It's another beautiful fall sunrise. The temperature is a brisk 45°. But, fall's going to slip back into a more summer like few days. The highs for the rest of the week will be pushing 80° if not above. On top of that I see there's a chance of…
Tuesday My two colorful trees just before sunup this morning. I am continually amazed by the rapidity of the change in the colors on the red oak. Though, truth be told, the Bald Cypress is taking a decidedly reddish turn this fall. And, as the pictures in the previous post…
Saturday The rains have finally moved out after dropping almost 6" in 2 days. Had the fall color progression has started. Yesterday was the first time I spotted color over most of the oak tree. And today seems to be covering even more. The cold spell we had last week…
Friday It was just yesterday that I noticed the first few colored leaves on the oak tree. This morning the color is spreading. It looks like this will be a nicely colored late fall display. Also, the bald cypress is showing a bit more color. When you add in the…
Where, Oh Where Is Winter? https://youtu.be/lv5AiHa5bZM This week has been very wintery looking at least... Though, truth be told, it hasn't felt at all seasonable. Overcast skies... Winds... But, temperatures keep topping out in the 70's and 80's... Even today. with a weather change in the forecast, most of the…
It's a bit on the warm side this morning. And a lite rain is falling. Evidently it's been falling for awhile. The trees are filled with dozens of small birds. The muted colors of fall are more evident in the rain. But I'm still waiting for the full blown color…
It's another hazy, overcast, almost cool fall morning. The second train of the morning is going through town. And a bird I like to call the squeaky gate bird is calling from the pine trees. It's probably just a secondary call of a blue jay, since I usually hear it…
Every day I look around in disbelief, remembering how surprised I was when spring began. I’m still busy being surprised by spring. I’ll be ready for fall by February, always behind the season and pretty certain I’ll never catch up. via Falling Behind the Season - Verlyn Klinkenborg. I always…
Today the red oak in the backyard is probably at peak color. Never in the years since I planted it has it been quite this vividly fall like. The funny thing about today is that the temperature is already at 76° and rising. It's breezy and partly cloudy. Yesterday it…