They appreciate the scene
My dear wife Karen and our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle can relish a good autumn neighborhood walk, yes they can.
Why do some stay up and some fall?
On a work break walk through Onondaga Lake Park on a warm late autumn day, I wondered … Why do some trees retain their leaves and others drop all of them … While they are standing right next to each other?
You’ve been framed
The leaves that dot my work break stroll in the Village of Liverpool really hung in there this October. Go figure.
Not quite as red as I’d like it
I am still hoping for that brilliant October red. Getting closer in my Onondaga Lake Park strolls.
It is going to be November soon
The Onondaga Lake Marina sure is starting to look like autumn during my work break strolls.
At least the contrast looks lovely
Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I caught an eyeful when we doggedly decided to walk the blocks surrounding A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville despite the big November snow. We saw what can happen when all that white stuff comes down before the trees have decided to relinquish their autumn leaves.…
Will this be the last mow of the year?
One look out back and I knew I had to get the mower out of the shed. Yes, the neighbors tree had left its lot from autumn 2018 upon the backyard of A Bitty Better. Besides, a month had gone by, and the grass underneath all those leaves was a bit shaggy, too. On I…
Here’s the orange
My work colleagues and I saw for the first time during our Thursday afternoon break walk from the library, a tree around the path at Onondaga Lake Park that I would qualify as truly orange. Yes, I consider this a late arriving splash.
Looking for that autumn color at Onondaga Lake Park
Not that I’m rushing the coming of winter or anything, but … It sure is taking a long time for the green to go around my part of the world this year. On a work break walk in Onondaga Lake Park in early October, I could hardly find any brightly colored leaves. There were a…
They keep holding on
Some trees won’t let go. Some look as if they’ve been bare forever. This makes for an interesting combination outside the Cobblestone in the Village of Liverpool.
