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Post by tourerjim on Oct 13, 2021 18:48:15 GMT
About 2 hour walk this afternoon...
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Post by hmca on Oct 13, 2021 22:41:03 GMT
We visited Longwood Gardens today. Taken with my phone.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 14, 2021 5:11:57 GMT
Ambled about the river valley this afternoon. Not many leaves left ... Plains cottonwood leaves ( Populus deltoides)
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 14, 2021 8:09:49 GMT
I bet you guys see some super-cold up there. Each year, our cold weather arrives a bit later. Until a few years ago, we could count on a killing frost by 10th October and the leaves start hitting the ground. Now, it is green as poison out there and it has been 84° for the last four days. Global warming is a myth and has nothing to do with this; instead, it is the Northern advance of the tropical rain band approaching it's 1200-year apex before starting back Southward.
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Post by whippet on Oct 14, 2021 18:09:10 GMT
@ BuckSkin. Send some of that heat over to here, please. I have had my heating on every evening this week.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 14, 2021 18:27:35 GMT
I bet you guys see some super-cold up there. I like winter but it's a bit too long and the days so short. Yes, can get a tad cold here. We've now had heavy frosts and in a few days there will be now deciduous leaves left. And it will howl here tomorrow so most will go tomorrow. It's been warm here in Sept and Oct so far (just like 1975) .. I remember it well. Classic Indigenous Summer. We are of like mind regarding climate. It comes and goes and always has. Had some record cold months in the past 2 or 3 years, countered by a hot summer in 2021. The weather is rather chaotic and constantly disproves the models. The effects of weather are largely a function of ever-increasing population, property values and poor municipal and regional planning. (Shut up now, Clive! ) Time for this afternoon walk in the valley. Clive
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Post by tourerjim on Oct 14, 2021 20:40:48 GMT
Mica Cap Common Inky mushrooms Walking the river Nene
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 14, 2021 22:29:56 GMT
@ BuckSkin. Send some of that heat over to here, please. I have had my heating on every evening this week. Today's High = 87° American
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 15, 2021 2:36:56 GMT
Today's pix from Pavan Park. A whitetail fawn in the scrub Downy woodpecker complying with the "No horses" order.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 15, 2021 2:55:07 GMT
Downy woodpecker complying with the "No horses" order. It appears to me that him, or some other avian, has already expressed their opinion of authority.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 15, 2021 3:29:47 GMT
It appears to me that him, or some other avian, has already expressed their opinion of authority. HA HA! Good one!
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 15, 2021 15:49:59 GMT
It appears to me that him, or some other avian, has already expressed their opinion of authority. HA HA! Good one! I find it funny that in this educated age of high technology, they have replaced all of our signs with symbols that one would need a pocket-guide to keep up with. What does the water spigot with upward arrow supposed to be telling us ? and "No Horses", does that mean no horses can drink or no horses beyond this point or what ? I have spent many an hour and countless miles on horseback; and, if I had paid notice to every "No Horses" sign I came upon, I would have spent a lot of time turning back; if any horsemen were in sign-making authority, those signs would read "Horses Welcome"; it's all a matter of who is in charge of making the signs.
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Post by tourerjim on Oct 15, 2021 18:46:17 GMT
Todays walk was around the Rushden Lakes whilst my indoors went shopping
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Post by hmca on Oct 15, 2021 21:16:24 GMT
Two of the 4 or 5 edits (!) of the same grocery store flower from today. I never know which one I like best.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 16, 2021 4:32:25 GMT
I find it funny that in this educated age of high technology, they have replaced all of our signs with symbols that one would need a pocket-guide to keep up with. What does the water spigot with upward arrow supposed to be telling us ? The signs make little sense and I go there often. No idea what they are about. I'll ask the downy woodpecker. Horses are indeed welcome throughout the entire park so I am not sure the purpose of that sign. There are 4 or 5 miles miles of trails along the river, the lowland, topland and coulees ... I guess more trails than that if you figure all of the combinations. You could ride there for hours and never pass the same point. I run into Simon, a palomino (and his owner Ann), a couple of times each fall and winter. Simon absolutely loves small oil sunflower seeds (I feed the chickadees) and he remembers me and nudges me for seeds to eat...he loves 'em. Good fun.
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