The leaves are falling at the shack del toad
 

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September 27 and the first patch of red appears. The green leaves have been falling for two weeks.

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The "slight" area doesn't include the Loveshack (that's my actual WiFi network name BTW), but then -- this prediction map was for yesterday.

And the Cellar car suffers. I had to put new windshield washer fluid in as the gummy green leaves leave their gum.

The ciiiircle of life. ...

Nice! The maples here look about ready to go big time.

I took the shorties apple picking today and came home with 6 pounds of free (to me) apples. We've been picking grifftopia wild apples for apple sauce. All the apple farms up here have had dynamite years. The place we were is running a 40 cents a pound u-pick. Great time of year!

Pretty

:facepalm: I was trying to work out what the blue code meant

It's a severe storm rolling in! RUN!

:p:

:lol2:

Sundae, I love you!

Here's the Farmers Almanac schedule by state.

Don't feel bad, I thought you were talking about the picture of the cellar car. I'm all zooming in, looking at the reflection of the blue sky, going. ... that doesn't look like code. Wtf is she yakking about. ..?

You meant the great Lakes on the map picture, right? Yeah. I'm SMRT.

Thanks for figuring that out, I was lost. *grin* Sundae

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They are really taking their time, as I pull back and go to a wider view. This was four days ago, Thursday, and the area has been warmer than usual so the leaves are taking their good ole time. Now this week it's going to be freezing so there should be more progress.

The car is gone!

Not quite yet... that will be a new thread soon

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No progress at all! It's not clear whether freezing temps have hit us quite yet.

FYI, from here, that vine on the tree looks like poison ivy. I'd either avoid it or kill it with severe prejudice if I were in you shoes.

Naw, it doesn't have 3 leaves and the leaves are really large. It does have poison berries on it though. Well I assume they're poison.

The bark of the vine looks like poison ivy to me, because it looks very hairy. And poison ivy does have berries at times, I thought I saw a grouping of three leaves, but clearly you're in a much better position to see than I am. Size is pretty much irrelevant. Individual poison ivy leaves can be as big as your hand.

Poison Ivy and Imposters.

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Hmm. I don't know what that is. It's not poison ivy.

I personally wouldn't touch it on the small chance that it's poison sumac. But since I don't know what poison sumac looks like...

I don't think it is poison ivy. The best way to tell is to wipe your butt with it and wait 24 hours

Your choice...

B

Poison ivy leaves can be VERY large, given perfect conditions, and it does (rarely, in my experience) have berries. But yes, that isn't poison ivy.

Could be B. I don't have any experience with poison sumac.

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Progress.

The Cellar Car makes an appearance, as it's parked further down the driveway than it was.

Dare you to rub some leaves all over your face! :D

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Just yellows?

Oh don't do that, you'll get pink eye. :haha:

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Last one I guess -- well that was a disappointing climax, it seems like there was no orange or red period, everything just fell at yellow in my little divot in the world, and the rest of the trees around here went orange and red a bit but it is now past peak.

At least my cell phone reception has improved.

Our leaves were green, were green, were green, were gone. No transition at all. Seems like they all fell at once.

I think it was a Tuesday.

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The neighbor takes his leaf blower and just blows all his leaves right down the hill into my area. But the joke is on him, because I don't care.

If your leaves were yellow, yellow is what they'll always be ... you don't have the sugar maples that turn flame red, or the ??? trees that go bright orange. But yellow is beautiful against dark, wet tree trunks.

I missed the peak this year in northwest PA, unfortunately; lots of yellow and orange here, but no red. Farther south, in Almost Heaven, again plenty of yellow and orange. No red. The sugar maples seem to need northern winters.

The best fall show I've ever seen was in the Ottawa Valley/Gatineau Region of Ontario/Quebec. Every hue and shade imaginable. Lots of sugar maples there for the reds, plenty of oaks, beech, birch for orange and yellow. Beautiful beyond comprehension. I didn't realize what riches I had at hand when I was a kid. I enjoyed all of it - just didn't realize it was rare and on the brink of disappearance.

Hahahaha......Yeah, I see many trees like that here. There's this one tree that used to turn red, bright red before the leaves fall. But for the past few years, they're just green then slowly I'd see some brown leaves on the ground. One day, no more leaves on the tree. They don't seem to turn yellow and red anymore. :(