Autumn 2008

Autumn is here again. It has been long in coming after a very warm and longish summer with little rain.Shades of global warming. I wonder? Farmers were desperate for rain which has finally come but much too late.We got fifty mm. over the last week. The leaves of the hickory turned yellow a week later than normal but now have nearly all fallen forming a carpet on the grass below. Yesterday I also took a picture of our pin oak which is really beautiful. The Hickory picture was taken on the 9th April exactly the same date as I took one last year so I can see the difference.