We get it to a limited extent in Florida. Usually it’s the sycamores that absciss first.
weylguysays
Oh, the joys of Minnesota in winter.
chigau (違う)says
Soon is now, here.
Rob Grigjanissays
chigau @3: I loved the fall in Edmonton. All two weeks of it.
chigau (違う)says
Rob, I’m in Calgary now. The weather is supposed to be better.
Akira MacKenziesays
Autumn is always bitter sweet for me.
CYRANO:
Ay, see how brave they fall,
In their last journey downward from the bough,
To rot within the clay; yet, lovely still,
Hiding the horror of the last decay,
With all the wayward grace of careless flight!
–Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac, Act V Scene 5
Summer maybe hot and miserable, but at least everything is green and alive. Autumn just reminds me that everything is going to become cold, gray, bitter, and dead.
I suspect that my part of my depression maybe seasonally affected.
magistramarlasays
I miss the fall colors, but I’m even more happy to look out and see that my rose bushes are still producing flowers on my patio!
We may get our first snowfall this weekend. Fall didn’t last long.
birgerjohanssonsays
As only the bark of the trees is ‘alive’ once the leaves have fallen, most of the mass of the trees is non-living. Thus, the term ‘skeleton’ is apt.
birgerjohanssonsays
The snow that fell five days ago is still here…
chigau (違う)says
If it were Winter, I’d call this a blizzard.
anthrosciguysays
A woman whose restaurant I ate at in Thailand a lot went to Ann Arbor for college, and she enjoyed having been able to see the way everything seems to die, and the ground becomes a solid, slick mass, surely incapable of sustaining life, dead grass, dead trees, and then spring comes and it all comes back to life.
It really is something to see. Ultimately, she didn’t exactly miss the winters, though.
chigau (違う)says
anthrosciguy @12
Thank you for that story.
I had never thought about how alarming the utter deadness of “northern” winters must be for people from sunnier climes.
Just dealing with cold and snow would be tough enough.
StevoRsays
@12. anthrosciguy : Well, pedantic but as far as “dead” trees go there are evergreen trees like Pines, Yews and conifers generally plus there’s cacti albeit probly not many growing outside in cold areas* and mosses and ferns etc.. but yeah.
Note many Opuntia species are extremely weedy and an ecologhical problem outside their native range.
anthrosciguysays
There are wintertime Snow Trips from Thailand to Korea to see and be in real, actual, snow and cold temps. They also opened a snow room at the Chiang Mai Zoo next to the panda enclosure. You can go and actually experience cold and snowy surfaces!
Bad Timing: I just saw the following posted http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com
Someone asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a moment to realize they meant “autumn,” not the collapse of civilization. – Anonymous
We get it to a limited extent in Florida. Usually it’s the sycamores that absciss first.
Oh, the joys of Minnesota in winter.
Soon is now, here.
chigau @3: I loved the fall in Edmonton. All two weeks of it.
Rob, I’m in Calgary now. The weather is supposed to be better.
Autumn is always bitter sweet for me.
Summer maybe hot and miserable, but at least everything is green and alive. Autumn just reminds me that everything is going to become cold, gray, bitter, and dead.
I suspect that my part of my depression maybe seasonally affected.
I miss the fall colors, but I’m even more happy to look out and see that my rose bushes are still producing flowers on my patio!
We may get our first snowfall this weekend. Fall didn’t last long.
As only the bark of the trees is ‘alive’ once the leaves have fallen, most of the mass of the trees is non-living. Thus, the term ‘skeleton’ is apt.
The snow that fell five days ago is still here…
If it were Winter, I’d call this a blizzard.
A woman whose restaurant I ate at in Thailand a lot went to Ann Arbor for college, and she enjoyed having been able to see the way everything seems to die, and the ground becomes a solid, slick mass, surely incapable of sustaining life, dead grass, dead trees, and then spring comes and it all comes back to life.
It really is something to see. Ultimately, she didn’t exactly miss the winters, though.
anthrosciguy @12
Thank you for that story.
I had never thought about how alarming the utter deadness of “northern” winters must be for people from sunnier climes.
Just dealing with cold and snow would be tough enough.
@12. anthrosciguy : Well, pedantic but as far as “dead” trees go there are evergreen trees like Pines, Yews and conifers generally plus there’s cacti albeit probly not many growing outside in cold areas* and mosses and ferns etc.. but yeah.
.* Although :
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/perennials/growing-cactus-plants-in-cold-climates/
Note many Opuntia species are extremely weedy and an ecologhical problem outside their native range.
There are wintertime Snow Trips from Thailand to Korea to see and be in real, actual, snow and cold temps. They also opened a snow room at the Chiang Mai Zoo next to the panda enclosure. You can go and actually experience cold and snowy surfaces!
Bad Timing: I just saw the following posted http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com
Someone asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a moment to realize they meant “autumn,” not the collapse of civilization. – Anonymous