Tuesday color report

[jhetley]

About half the trees show color now, maples and birches and oaks and sumac, while some of the ashes and the red maples in the bog are already bare. A couple of tamaracks have started turning.

Flowers limited to banks and swathes of asters and an admixture of cornflower and goatsbeard. Milkweed pods bursting.

Roadkill limited to a muskrat or mink on the opposite side of the road and a scattering of gray squirrels.

Temperature in the 70s F, windy, damp, but I got out on the bike. New bike shoes, 50% off for end of season. Did not die.

15.27 miles, 1:15:09