Last weekend was the peak of the fall colour which coincided nicely with our Canadian Thanksgiving. We haven't had much in the way of windy days so the leaves stayed on the trees for longer than normal. Then they suddenly rained down like a snowstorm and today most of the trees are bare.
I like the eye-popping lime green mixed in with the reds and oranges.
The colourful backdrop allows you to see the structure of the dead branch.
The sky is a lovely blue, but not as spectacularly blue as it was last year in the middle of the lockdown.
Every leaf is different.
This puffball mushroom is about 15" across . When we were young in Quebec, we used to find smaller puffballs about the size of golfballs. Unlike most mushrooms, a puffball is the same all the way through - no gills. We would slice them and fry them in butter and they were delicious. My parents were careful about picking mushrooms as a friend of theirs had a very bad experience eating the wrong mushroom, but there was no mistaking the puffballs. As they age, the puffballs turn brown and develop a hole in the top. The skin gets sort of papery and the inside is filled with spores. If you push on it at this stage, the spores come out in clouds, hence the name puffball.
This is a beautiful specimen of maple on a neighbour's front lawn. I think as a young tree they snipped out the leader because it has many uniform sized branches all around. It's gorgeous at any time of the year. It's about 40 years old.
A fun little decoration to make people smile .
Those colours are certainly spectacular. We're still hoping to get some autumn colour, though the weather has not been helpful so far.
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