Well, I'm back!
Over the past weekend, we did some traveling... First we attended the Midwest Environmental Education Conference in Madison, WI; then we went the opposite direction for a funeral in Indiana. After all that driving, I'm going to go ahead and declare that this past weekend was peak fall color in this region. In both directions, we got stunning colors...
The russets and burgundies, scarlets and browns of the oaks, the bright golds, oranges and reds of the maples, the purple-and-yellows of the ashes... It was like an artists palette of every warm color on the color wheel -- with some left-over green thrown in. All of it was framing the classic Midwestern landscape of rolling farm fields, so it was very picturesque. (Not that I took a picture, mind you...)
Upon arriving home, I discovered that the ash tree in our yard was bare nekked, no leaves left at all... it looks ready for winter. By yesterday late afternoon, I looked across the prairies and saw a lot more empty branches. We really did our driving at the perfect time!
And speaking of the prairies... they are BROWN. Solidly and pretty much only brown, though there are many different shades of brown with all the seeds. But no asters or green leaves left (except grasses near the ground).
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