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ONE GOLDEN DAY AMIDST A SEA OF MUD AND WIND – Marilyn Armstrong

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Golden November Day – FOTD – November 5, 2018

Bronze oak leaves piled against the back door

So just when you think autumn is over for good and all, when every maple leaf has blown to the earth and half the trees along the road are broken, the sun comes out and the oak trees are burnished gold.

Through the trees

Sunshine and oak trees

It’s the only sunny day we’re going to get this week. It’ll be stormy and windy and raining tomorrow and the day after. I think we may get half a day of not-rain sometimes in the middle of the week, but after that, it’s going to get cold, with more rain.

So I picked up my camera, went outside to the deck and took some pictures.

The light through the trees is amazing

Sunshine!

Just a day of sunshine made me feel better. And I’m not dealing well with the time change. I can’t believe it’s not even 10 pm. It has been dark since a little past four. It’s going to be mostly dark for the next four months. I wonder if any of my winter coats still fit?

 

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19 replies

  1. Taswegian1957
    11/06/2018 • 05:13

    I do love oak trees, they are the trees of my childhood in England. I rarely saw any in South Australia but they grow quite well in Tasmania and there are some lovely ones in city parks.
    We started Daylight Saving early in October and it will go on till early April so the days are long now. I don’t mind it here but I hated it in South Australia because it made the hot days feel like they would never end. I wouldn’t really care if we didn’t have it though. I don’t know that it really saves money. I understand how it would have been useful in wartime England but that was a different set of circumstances.

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  2. Bette A. Stevens
    11/05/2018 • 15:45

    Things are looking drab up here…and oh, do we need more sun!

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  3. Melanie B Cee
    11/05/2018 • 14:49

    Lovely pictures, glorious sunshine! I hate that whole time change thing too…the animals aren’t fooled and it disgruntles everyone’s schedule. I’d complain and gripe about it, but what’s the use? They’re NEVER going to fix it….not in Utah anyway. Maybe Massachusetts will! I mean Arizona went there, right? Lucky besstids. 😉

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      11/05/2018 • 14:57

      They always talk about it, but don’t do it. What they do is make the change period shorter and shorter. It used to be from the beginning of October through the end of March. Now it’s November until the beginning of March — two months shorter. It annoys most people and the cows don’t care. It started during WW2 to keep the use of electricity lower, but it has lost its value long since. Now, it’s just another “tradition” with which we are pointlessly stuck. I’d rather have the light at the end of the day. This was also true when I was working. It was better to have light in which to drive HOME when you were tired.

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      • Melanie B Cee
        11/05/2018 • 18:58

        Have to fully agree. Here it was doubly bad (and perhaps there too..) I drove to work in the dark and home again in the dark. And ‘they’ wonder why S.A.D. is so prevalent. My commiserations!

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    • Garry Armstrong
      11/05/2018 • 18:52

      Melanie, the dogs had their game face when their dinner time didn’t arrive as usual. I tried to explain the time change but they would not have any of that. I gave into their persistent barking.

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      • Melanie B Cee
        11/05/2018 • 18:56

        Ah! Thanks Garry, you’ve explained why I had a lot of not very subtle ‘whining’ and long, sad looks from the chihuahuas…it was an HOUR past their dinner time….. Oh……..

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  4. http://theenglishprofessoratlarge.com
    11/05/2018 • 12:01

    Thank you for the golden trees. They’re magical.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      11/05/2018 • 14:59

      That’s what the oak trees do. By now, all the other trees are naked, but the oaks look like gold until the end of November, at which point most of them go fully bare. Some oaks don’t actually lose their leaves until spring, though. They are mostly deciduous, but not entirely.

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  5. swo8
    11/05/2018 • 11:59

    Golden is here and I would prefer golden to white any day.
    Leslie

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  6. DailyMusings
    11/05/2018 • 07:15

    Nothing like the colors of autumn. Everywhere I drive I ohh and ahh at the colors around me

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  7. jengarynewadventures
    11/05/2018 • 01:47

    We went for a drive to see the fall foliage today! We will be getting rain also. It was so beautiful and relaxing. I know how you feel about the time change. I have already been asleep and woke up before midnight ready for the next day 🙂 Jen

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  8. Sadje
    11/05/2018 • 01:33

    Amazing colors. Thanks for sharing

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  9. angloswiss
    11/05/2018 • 01:26

    The golden colours of Autumn. We have had time change for a couple of weeks. At least there is more light in the morning

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