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rubyelf

Pictures of the Outside World...

Sep 26, 2015 20:41

Fall isn't quite here yet, even with the colder nights... the trees are holding onto summer as long as they possibly can. I don't know why I'm so hungry for the colors and sounds of fall this year, because fall means winter and winter's lockdown on the Great Lakes is relentless and harsh, but I am desperately craving the flares of orange and red ( Read more... )

photography, science, nature, pictures, fungi

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rubyelf September 27 2015, 01:14:18 UTC

My closest Great Lake is Lake Erie, which isn't the biggest of the Great Lakes, but it does have a notoriously nasty lake effect weather system.

heavydrtysoul September 27 2015, 02:46:19 UTC

Beautiful. I loved reading this. I could almost smell and feel the fall...

rubyelf September 27 2015, 13:38:45 UTC

It's coming... I can feel it... but it's not quite here yet. I spend so much time at my lake (when I can) that the subtleties of the way seasons change becomes a pattern I watch for.

melatomica September 27 2015, 03:28:20 UTC

Everything's still so green there!
We have an abundance of colors and leaves falling already :C

rubyelf September 27 2015, 13:39:37 UTC

I'm a bit surprised it is still so green, except that maybe it's the intense dryness. If the leaves don't have as much moisture in them they may not respond to the cold snaps with the same color.

ragnarok_08 September 27 2015, 03:44:48 UTC

Wow, those pictures are just so lovely :DDD

rubyelf September 27 2015, 13:39:46 UTC

Thank you.

bluegerl September 27 2015, 08:48:47 UTC

Stuff DOES look green... ours here do as well... as if this last sudden good rain has set it all off again. There are so MANY weed-flowers around, and my 'garden' is out of this world. I shall be soooo sad when they come and chop it all down for the winter. I've a lovely flowering deadly nightshade hauling itself up my wall beside the door on one side and a double arch of a stinging nettle the other, with a teeensiest little umbelica-flowered plant at its foot. (I think that flower is so small cos the environment is sooo harsh, a terribly poor soil squashed between two pave stones ( ... )

rubyelf September 27 2015, 13:40:53 UTC

I'm going to try to watch the eclipse but it is supposed to be cloudy!

I'm not sure what kind of woodpeckers are doing the work... from the size of the holes I'd think it was the big ones, but then they keep getting deeper, and I start to think it must be the little ones and they're actually getting inside and drilling around.