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| BRONZE RED OAK LEAVES... |
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| ..DITTO... |
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Tuesday, 9:00 AM. 50 degrees F, wind N with strong gusts. the sky is overcast, the humidity is 81% and the barometer is steady, at 29.92". It is not a cold morning but the east wind has the breath of winter about it.
This has been a beautiful fall, but with some unusual colors;
viz., most of the red oak,
Quercus rubra, leaves have turned bronze or brown, rather than the usual red or deep purple. I could theorize that the long, wet, relatively warm fall, still without a frost, is the reason; but if so, why are so many other tree and shrub species their usual fall color? Some of the sapling oaks do have red leaves, but virtually none of the large oak trees do. Maybe some of the trees will fool me and yet turn from bronze to red, but I really doubt that.
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