Our camera is broken, so this will be a picture-less post. Ever since the camera broke, I've been wanting to take a photo of the two flowering cherry trees in our back yard. About half their leaves are green and about half are orange. On my "wall of trees," the hillside opposite my office window, a few trees are bare, but most of the deciduous trees are still orange. Yet it's late May, the equivalent of late November in the Northern Hemisphere. In Seattle, all the trees are bare in late November.
The weather has been COLD off and on for weeks, a few days with snow in the hills that we can see from our house. It seems like fall comes later here. (Summer comes later too.) Maybe the key is that the cold weather has been off and on, with warm days interspersed. It's fascinating to me that it's so hard to equate the seasons with the seasons in the Pacific Northwest, even though the latitude is similar and both are maritime climates.
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It doesn't sound that much different except that it's a bit later. It's fascinating to read about the coming of autumn as we're in the midst of the coming of spring.
Now I get it - I didn't see the first post on autumn until just now. It is amazing how there are such different kinds of plants there. Truly creation is amazing in it's variety.
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