FALLING LEAVES 2021, WEEK 2:

It cloudy and rainy today, so the pictures are not as crisp as last week. Let's start with the storm clouds, the picture taken from a neighbor's driveway.

Trees are green and the brush beneath is thick. There is actually another house down the hill but it won't be visible till the leaves are almost all gone, and not easily even then.

Here's the neighborhood's main drag, looking to the north. While still mostly green, there are leaves littering the road (it'll get worse - much worse) and one can see the paucity of leaves on the trees in front of the carport. Some of that is leaf fall, but mostly I think a result of last year's late freeze.

Looking west directly out of our driveway, it's still mostly green, but the missing leaves are obvious. Leaves are falling steadily in our 'back 40', again mostly as a result of last year's freeze damage.

Here' my standard view of the pond, taken from our back deck. Compared to last week the pond is greener as the sediment from the earlier heavy rains has begun to settle out. It's hard to tell, but it does appear that the pond is a bit more visible from the deck.

Our daughter-in-law was here last week, so the path down to the pond is now the path to Bear Lake. That brown in the middle of the picture is our neighbor's house, about 200 yards away. Since the undergrowth was mostly cleared out last year and not yet regrown, their house is about as visible as it ever will be. Note that all the trees still have their leaves -- I suspect that the density of the forest through there may have had a mitigating effect on last year's freeze.

And finally the pond, er, Bear Lake. It's still pretty lush and green, but you can see little tinges of brown here and there throughout the tree line.

Until next week....