The Last Autumn Tree – FOTD – November 9, 2018
We had a second sunny day in a row. Unbelievable! But not to worry. It will rain tomorrow. Probably not until the evening. The rivers are full and they are expecting rivers to flood.
I am trying not to think about it, hoping the sump and the pump are up to the task. And our French drains are not clogged with leaves and the gutters are still viable. And the roof doesn’t leak.
The tree in all her glory
It has been raining … major storms … several times each week and the rivers are cresting. And guess who lives in a river valley?
Amazing colors!
I went out and took more pictures of The Tree. Because after tomorrow’s storm, it won’t have any leaves left. Count on it.
I have save more pictures because I’m going to need them.
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Categories: #foliage, #Photography, Autumn, Cee's Photo Challenge, Flower of the day, leafing, Trees, Weather
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Lovely autumn captures 🙂
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If it’s your last colorful pic of the season, then you end in style!
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I’ve save some, just so as the weather gets worse, I’ll have something pretty to remind me of the good old two-days.
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Good plan!
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Last year, Autumn was one week long. This year? Two days.
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Aw, that’s way too short.
Would you say that the season tends to be shorter nowadays? More rainy summers maybe?
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Winter was longer — about a month longer — than normal. Spring went missing. Summer lasted longer — again about a month more and instead of the dry weather you expect in summer, it has rained and stormed at least two or three times a week since last April. Our rivers are overflowing and between the rain and wind, autumn just went missing. We have not had three days in a row of sun since April. And I’m not sure about April, either. Oh, and it has rained for at least one day of every weekend since snow changed to rain.
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It has been strange everywhere. In France older people say Il n’y a plus de saison. Which translates in There are no more seasons.
Global warming, climate change are our reality.
I hope you won’t have too much snow, at least not too early.
Although snow makes good pictures:)
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I hear this from everywhere. I think this IS what climate change is. Not one thing, but a lot of things. In all kinds of places and not equal in every location.
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True!
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AND this is an El Nino year, so who knows how it will go?
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Yes it is and those years can be quite something.
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Gorgeous colours Marilyn, we’ve been getting a lot of rain too. Where on earth is there a place where the sun always shines and it stays pleasantly warm most of the year?
Leslie
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I think Southern California approaches your description — pleasantly warm sometimes becomes too hot, and for a very few (less than 10) days each year the sun goes behind clouds. The downside of such idealism is that the fire season is no longer seasonal, and we periodically have huge conflagrations.
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Thanks slmret,think I’ll take a pass on that.
Leslie
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The Caribbean when there isn’t a hurricane? Hawaii when there isn’t an erupting volcano? Southern California when it isn’t burning down? San Diego, I think, or at last, the last I knew.
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always something to spoil things……
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So exquisite!
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Japanese Maple trees, French drains……I love the sound of this, Marilyn.
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I think the tree looks even better today.
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Really amazing colors.
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Have exactly the same problems with leaves clogging up drains, gutters etc. But we alsi still have PLENTY of leaves at the trees. And none as beautiful as yours. Here it’s not only the rain (thankfully in very reasonable amounts lately) but the mountaing water table under our feet. AND we live at the top of a small hill….
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Your maple looks bigger here than in yesterdays pic! 🙂 The sunlight on the golden leaves is beautiful! 🙂
Hope the rain goes easy on Uxbridge ( and points upstream!) 🙂
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We are lucky to have no rain at the moment and we have the leaf removal men on the streets with their leaf blowers
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I can just imagine them, when no-one is looking, lifting up the side of the verge where it joins the road and blowing the leaves under neath then putting it back like a carpet! 🙂
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Let us not give them ideas 🙂
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… or they blow them into public toilets till they reach the ceiling! 😉 – Sorry! 😉
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Look at those colors! Thanks for sharing!
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We can a half day of non-rain tomorrow, then it will all get blown away in the next storm. But it’s the jewel of our property.
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Love the tree! Good luck with the rains!
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We have done EVERYTHING you can do to keep the floods out. But the rain has been relentless, so I guess we’ll see.
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Too darn relentless.
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