Category: Landscape
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A Hardy November

A dark, even for November, day, presaging another nor’easter. We seem stuck in a cycle where we have a week or two of parched conditions, followed by a couple of days of flooding rain. The coming storm promises to wet without flooding, before giving way to another long dry stretch. A look up the street…
Michael Watson PhD
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Undisciplined?

A clear, cool day following a warmish weekend. There was frost on our windshield yesterday and also on the grass. Here and there we find trees in full color, while others are completely devoid of leaves. Otherwise, there remains a good deal of green. West of here the weekend color was near peak, saturated and…
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Milky Sky Day

A cool, milky sky day. There’s a stiff breeze out of the south, bringing in warmer temperatures and the threat of a passing very brief shower. By Indigenous Day we should receive some rain from the remnants of this season’s lone hurricane. The sun has moved quite far south in the time we’ve been here,…
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Early October

We awoke to clear skies after an evening of rain. At breakfast, more cloud came in, then left, so that now the sky is a vast open blue. It’s cool but hardly cold. Still, we keep the doors and windows closed until the air warms, much to the consternation of Nori the Cat. On Saturday…
Michael Watson PhD