Sunday, September 4, 2016

signs of something


Perhaps not fall exactly but definitely the end of summer. Another heat record breaking summer.

The tallows are dropping their red/orange/yellow mottled leaves.


New plumes are emerging from the clumps of pampas grass.


The leaves of this plant that grows in the fields have turned white.


I saw two Vees of migrating birds this week, geese I assume though they were silent as they flew south overhead.

The ox-blood lilies are starting to bloom.


I'm pretty sure, for a couple of mornings and evenings in the last couple of weeks I felt...a hint of a change in the air.

And the days are definitely getting shorter.




16 comments:

  1. Yep. Same here. Plus- hurricanes.

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    1. fortunately hurricanes have missed us so far this year.

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  2. Definetely a very heavy dew on the grass this morning...still there at 8:30 am even in the sunny spots of the lawn.

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  3. It feels like summer is fading fast.

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  4. Chilly, chilly mornings. Can't argue with that. And it happened just overnight.

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    1. I used to think change happened slowly, like the shorter days, but often it seems like it happens overnight.

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  5. I must spend more time in my terrace looking up... to see what the birds are doing around these parts... some of our trees have began to change early, too...

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  6. All signs I love! The camping season is coming to an end!!

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  7. Nights are cold here and I'm crunching leaves on my walk (I love the sound of crunching Autumn leaves).
    You still have such a wealth of beautiful flowers blooming, just about everything is gone here. Time to buy a chrysanthemum.

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  8. I love this time of year, the time of change. Autumn has always been my favorite season. (Partly because it provided such a blessed relief from the Florida summer!)

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  9. I can' t believe how late sunrise is.Seeing lots of color here

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  10. The white flowers in your field probably are snow-on-the-prairie (Euphorbia marginata). There's a similar plant called snow-on-the-mountain (Euphorbia bicolor, I believe). They're like poinsettias in the sense that the flowers are tiny, and the white leaves or white-margined leaves are brachts. They're all over down here, too. I just was taking some photos of them yesterday.

    I know the tallows have a bad reputation, but those leaves you show are beautiful.

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    1. thanks for identifying that for me. I think you are right. I'll have to ask my cactus expert if they are related to a succulent he gave me.

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  11. Felt and smelled like fall last night. It was a seriously hallucinatory gorgeous day up here though.

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    1. back to being oppressively hot here but those days of perceived cooling will be more frequent.

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  12. We're in NC right now & the first thing I noticed at my dad's house was the pampas grass - whoa! I guess we haven't been here when it's been its full glory (usually, Mike would be teaching right now).

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