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| SUMACS ARE TURNING... |
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| AS ARE RED MAPLES IN THE SWAMPS... |
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| AND SOME SUGAR MAPLES HERE AND THERE... |
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| BUT THE COLOR PALETTE IS STILL MOSTLY GREEN |
Friday, 8:00 AM. 57 degrees F, wind NE. Mostly calm, with light to moderate gusts. It is overcast and foggy, but the rain has stopped. The humidity is 97% and the barometer is steady, now standing at 30.36". Sunshine is predicted for the weekend.
I have checked my photos for the past several years, and this is definitely a later-than-usual fall, color-wise. Trees and shrubs in the wild are changing, but mostly too subtly to see in a photo. Ash trees are a tiny bit yellow, and sugar maples are starting to turn, but almost imperceptibly. A few swamp red maples are brilliant scarlet, but not many. Sumacs are about half colored, but none are brilliantly scarlet and orange as they will be before long.
With the ample rainfall we have had, leaves will stay greener a little longer, but I am certain everything will change in a hurry and fall color will arrive in a few days.
Distant views from the golf course are still all green and blue. All things considered, I estimate the color season is at least a week later than the last several years, and perhaps quite late overall.
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