Nature Notes: Cooling down and daily changes

It's beginning to cool down a lot and feels more and more like fall.

There aren't many trees that have fall colors.

Every time I see autumn leaves I'm photographing them because the novelty hasn't worn out yet.

We won't reach peak colors for quite a while.

I always like to see seeds this time of the year.

Seeds and berries are as much of a welcome part of fall for me as the colorful leaves are.

It interests me how some trees change colors almost a month ahead of other trees in the same location.

We've had a few sunny days for a change.

We've also had some hard rains.

 My yard is such a jungle at this point I'm going to try to do fall cleanup this year.

The porcelain vines (shown below) are very invasive and have popped up everywhere. I planted them to grow on my deck wall with other vines, not realizing how prolific they were.

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