Another 'fall' day.

 For the next week it will be in the 90's starting around noon, the only saving of this run is it drops about twenty degrees at night. Once again we are closed up and staying cool while it is fusty winds and 92 outside.

No pictures today of my own. Might get out in the evening to check on the plant and get pictures then. I don't even know if the liquidambers are changing color yet.

 So many pictures out there of acres of yellow, orange and red leaf trees, all very picturesque and comfy looking. I would rather have a few here and there dotted or in clumps with the evergreen of firs creating the background. Because after the fall color is gone, a bleak and desolate looking landscape of barren trees and snow follows.

 Some people may like that. For those of us in an area where we don't get that much color the first picture is very romantic, the second picture is more like what we get here and, depending on the area, even less color.

This is all leading up to the term 'year round interest' on plant labels. One lady thought it meant that it had leaves and flowers all year round. Um no. When it was explained to her she adamantly said she didn't want anything that dropped leaves but she wanted colorful leaves all the time.

'Year Round Interest' means it changes with the seasons so something is going on every season and that means leafing out in spring, flowers and leave in the summer then the leaves either change color or just drop in the winter so you have structural branches in the winter. People who come from tropical or evergreen areas sometimes can't compute with leaves dropping in winter. That's fine, just don't expect that sort of thing when you live where trees actually change.

Anyway, I am looking out the window now and it is very windy and no clouds in my view though there are some coming from the south east. Wind means weather change is coming. Will see what happens.