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We got kinda shortchanged on fall colors this year in Illinois - very dry summer. Drought makes the leaves start to turn brown before the usual start of fall. It's a survival thing.
Very selfish of the trees, really. Doing stuff to ensure their survival instead of feeding our desire for displays of reds, yellows and oranges.
The only green here is found as either very small, very numerous leaves that don't change color according to the time of year, or the bark of the trees. When an entire tree changes color, it usually means I'm going to have to replace it soon.
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We had a late fall this year in Rhode Island -- it's only now starting to get really cold. I don't have a useful camera, or I'd have taken some picures.
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I can see a brown banana leaf off my back balcony, but all the other leaves are a far greener green than most of you have ever seen. And that goes for the coconut palms, pineapple, mango, papaya, lime, and all other tropical trees out here.
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How do you make a rain man? With clear plastic leaf bags filled up under the drain spout? Would he leak if you jammed in sticks for his arms?
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There so many squirrels here, but I haven't seen any fat ones. Oh, I want to see an obese squirrel.
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(I think that big guy in the top center photos of the "fat squirrel" image-search is actually a prairie dog. Note that you can't see a tail peeking 'round the edges. Pretty durn cute, though.)
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quote:(I think that big guy in the top center photos of the "fat squirrel" image-search is actually a prairie dog.
That reminds me of a conversation Andrew and I had last year:
Andrew: What the h@%& is wrong with that squirrel? Kira: It's a chipmunk.
We had spectacularly beautiful foliage here for 2 weeks, then we had 2 days of record winds and they all blew off the trees.
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We had some pretty colors also...but I didn't get a chance to catch some pictures. But, it did snow a few days ago!! I did take some decent (if i may say so myself) photos of that.
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