Musings

Even at dawn, we could tell today would be relatively cloudless, or actually cloudless, as it turned out.

Loverly.

Especially along the Huron River.

* Check here for the full rhyme….

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And not the housekeeping sort, either.

Despite the cold and white-stuff, I’m sure the Explorer is still glad (please pardon the anthropomorphization) it didn’t become an official Clunker.

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Here it is coming on late November, and I found a blooming camellia, not just with an odd bloom, but with flowers and buds all over.

You got the title, right? The best-known member of the Camellia family is Camellia sinensis, that is, the tea camellia. In addition, I’m sure glad to see blooms outdoors this time of year….

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We’ve lost track of the number of autumns we’ve seen this year. It’s especially nice to be home while the leaves* are gloriously colored!

*Ginko biloba in this case…although this sample is not bilobate!

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I was going to try to get the Guru to make a wee graphic for today that on the left had the letters “CAL” with one of those red circles with the slanty cross-bar, and on the right the letters “NO CAL,” but then I saw the redwoods and, pffft!, I changed my mind!

We did in fact cross Oregon today, as well as not a few miles of Washington, and, whew, we’re in the Governator’s fair state!

Great sunset over a marina-forest of masts and fishing-boat superstructures. Let’s hope the rain will be inland, or “behind” us, tomorrow.

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The sun played peek-a-boo, and we made the best of it!

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We couldn’t decide whether this was a marine layer or the air is crappy.

Translation: we have reached sea level!

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I’ve been watching this corner of the field with particular care, to monitor the changing colors. We have had more moderate temps since the hard frost last week, so the maples have yet to develop many leaves in the dark reds and maroons. See?

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Rain plus back roads equals muddy running boards. Note: even after we went through the automatic car wash (coin machines were broken at the U-wash), the mud remained. The hose at the house took care of it, though!

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We knew last night it was coming, and daylight brought us a view of white—the first hard frost, harbinger of oranges and reds in the maple leaves, and of the end of the vegetable gardens.

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