Tag: weather
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September, and the first signs of Fall
It’s probably two weeks ago, now, that I saw a couple of yellow leaves fall off a tree and land by my feet. Around that same time I noticed a few green acorns on the ground. Nights (and days) have gotten cooler. Sunrise and sunset, always in motion, are contracting the daylight hours, a little…
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A tale of resiliency and recovery from Helene
Thomas Witherspoon (K4SWL) who blogs at https://qrper.com/ lives in the Swannanoa area of North Carolina which was hit hard by Hurricane Helene late last month. His series of posts from there is well worth reading and are collected at this link: Helene Aftermath
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Mid-September omnibus
Word cloud I think I see the problem: Blue skies Here in Wisconsin on a clear, not-too-humid day with fresh wilderness air the sky can be as blue as the sky in a Miyazaki film. Touch paddles 1.1 Serpent! Kickapoo River Thanks for visiting driftlessqrp!
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Winter is coming
and I don’t mean that in some dark, apocalyptic Game of Thrones way. It seems like every passing day brings some new sign of the change of seasons. It’s over two weeks since I saw the first bright red fallen leaf while I was hiking. Last weekend, at Camel Bluff, I noticed that the sumac…