Nice to see some Fall colour.

[duke]

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Yup Duke, our horse chestnuts are well on too. Official first day of metrological autumn tomorrow.

 

[Dr.Al]

Yup Duke, our horse chestnuts are well on too. Official first day of metrological autumn tomorrow.

<pedant>meteorological</pedant> (source: I work for a metrology company and it has nothing to do with the weather!)

 

[Doug]

This dry weather we’ve been having has played havoc with our red leaved Acers, you’d think it was October not august with the colour they are funnily it’s not affected the green leaved ones

 

[Steve Maskery]

Wow, green grass. Not seen that for months.
Today it is actually raining, but we have had MONTHS of drought. Water supply at the highest level, Critique. The grass is brown, the trees are shedding their leaves and just about everthing else is dead. Our friends, who have been here 40 years, say they have never known anything like it.
S

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

<pedant>meteorological</pedant> (source: I work for a metrology company and it has nothing to do with the weather!)

Gawd, ejit. Hoisted on my own pedant (Sorry, awful pun). Gracious thanks Al; I preached: "precision, precision, precision" to my Sixth Forms for nearly forty years, so it is only fair that I get called out for a careless misspelling.
And yes, that should be "petard".
Sam

 

[duke]

Wow, green grass. Not seen that for months.
Today it is actually raining, but we have had MONTHS of drought. Water supply at the highest level, Critique. The grass is brown, the trees are shedding their leaves and just about everthing else is dead. Our friends, who have been here 40 years, say they have never known anything like it.
S

Steve, I have been so busy with work and the cabin that I managed to cut grass yesterday. Filled the mover collector up three times when normally one will do.

 

[duke]

Wow, green grass. Not seen that for months.
Today it is actually raining, but we have had MONTHS of drought. Water supply at the highest level, Critique. The grass is brown, the trees are shedding their leaves and just about everthing else is dead. Our friends, who have been here 40 years, say they have never known anything like it.
S

Seems pretty bleak Steve.

 

[duke]

Yup Duke, our horse chestnuts are well on too. Official first day of metrological autumn tomorrow.

Don't horse chestnuts look bland when changing colour?

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Don't horse chestnuts look bland when changing colour?

Not until they drop Duke, when they are brown. Vivid reds, yellows of the anthocyanin family, whilst on the tree
Bit like Maine in the fall. The sycamore (Acer) family can be colourful too. I'll see if I can get you a photo or two; in-between the rain fronts a low pressure system.is chucking around our heads presently.

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

Don't horse chestnuts look bland when changing colour?

Ours started going brown months ago and the leaves are now absent from the trees. We have a miner infestation problem here in the chestnut trees, larvae eating the flesh of the leaves between the upper and lower leaf surfaces.

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

There you go Duke. Just one of dozens of horse chestnuts.