FALL IS OVER

OUR TWO 'AUTUMN BLAZE' MAPLES ARE STILL SPECTACULAR

Thursday, 9:15 AM.  Temperature 41 at the ferry dock, 39 on the back porch.  Wind mostly calm and variable, sky overcast and humidity 87 %.  The barometer is falling gently, now at 30.23", predicting overcast skies with rain by Monday,  temperatures in the forties and no chance of a hard frost.
   Our trip yesterday to Duluth proved without a doubt that fall color is over, done, fini. The only color on the rainy trip were a few tamaracks still holding on to their bronze needles, and some willows with a few scarce yellow leaves.  Everything else was pretty drab.  I can't even prove those swatches of color with photos as my camera battery dried up.
   Right here in town and along the lake shore of the Bayfield peninsula there is still some color, but otherwise we are ready for Halloween, and our first snow. The later will have to wait for cooler temperatures, but they won't be long in coming either.

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