When out ‘leaf peeping’, normally people are drawn to the bright reds and oranges so the yellows are often overlooked even though they add some bright sunny colors in the autumn landscape.
Touch of Yellow
Picture of the Day for October 17, 2015
With the warmer nights, until recently, my early turning maple trees didn’t have as brilliant colors as they normally do in the autumn. But now that the nights are colder, the oaks are displaying some bright red colors which catch your eyes in the woods.
Displaying Red
Picture of the Day for September 23, 2015
The calendar says it is the start of astronomical autumn, or the first day of fall. But the trees started changing color a month ago and the autumn color never last as long as what the calendar says since winter is a hog and steals months from autumn.
Astronomical Autumn
Picture of the Day for September 13, 2015
In a few weeks, the hills surrounding this church will be ablaze with autumn color and it has seen many autumn seasons as the date above the entrance states 1864.
Church Waiting for Another Autumn
Picture of the Day for September 10, 2015
The wings of the Monarch butterfly caught my eye when I was mowing and I had to slow down a few times for it to move out of the way. Monarch butterflies are known for the incredible mass migration in the fall before the cold weather moves in, which could be 3,000 miles, that brings millions of them to California and Mexico each winter.
Monarch butterflies go through four stages during one life cycle (egg, larvae, pupa and adult butterfly) and through four generations in one year. The first three generations in the year have short life span of 2 to 6 weeks, and only the monarchs born in late summer or early fall live six to eight months and make the migration, and they make only one round trip when they return in the spring to lay the eggs before dying. It is the spring migrators’ great grandchildren that make the trip in the fall returning on the same routes and even sometimes to the same tree as their ancestors.
The King of Butterflies
Picture of the Day for September 6, 2015
The Labor Day weekend is often referred to as the end of summer (even if not the end of astronomical summer yet), but apparently the maple trees think it is autumn as leaves started to turn last week since they heard it was meteorological autumn already. So I guess it is the end of summer (even if the dew point is 73 right now and doesn’t fell like autumn yet).
Start of Autumn Sunset
Picture of the Day for February 5, 2015
Some people and some things are greedy and old man winter is one of them as he steals most of autumn and part of spring. He doesn’t look at the calendar and see he is only supposed to have three months and especially not this winter since it snowed a week and a half after autumn started. Autumn should holler and stomp its feet but instead it quietly slips away after a brief appearance and the evidence of its passing soon becomes buried under the snow.
Robbed of Autumn
Picture of the Day for January 17, 2015
This weekend is Wisconsin’s Winter Free Fishing so you can fish anywhere in Wisconsin without a license or trout stamp. This includes all inland waters and Wisconsin’s side of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River. And this year, the weather will actually be fairly nice with temperatures around the freezing mark.
But I never been much of an ice fishing person as sitting around a hole on a hunk of ice waiting for a fish to swim by your line doesn’t overly thrill me. Half the fun of fishing is seeing if you can throw your line in the spot you want (without getting snagged in the tree behind you or the stump in the water), but I also like see other critters swimming about or spotting wildflowers along the path to the fishing spot and where I can sit on a warm sunny bank so I think I will wait until the free summer fishing weekend in June instead.
Fishing Weekend
Picture of the Day for January 10, 2015
It is finally above zero this morning, still not above freezing, but at least the wind isn’t howling causing the extreme wind chills so I imagine there will be people out skiing today. I still rather take a walk in the woods when the trees aren’t bare as they seem so lifeless during the winter dominant phase. Autumn signifies the bare stage of winter is approaching but I love the last hurrah the colored leaves give before making their way to the ground.
A Walk on an Autumn Road
Picture of the Day for December 20, 2014
Since today is the last day of autumn, one more colorful autumn picture is needed especially since another cloudy dreary day and looking out at stark bare trees.
End of Autumn
