[Magdalen] Blue skies, smilin' at me...

[Charles Wohlers]

Thanks -  we've had a chickadee population explosion this year - they come 
nonstop to the feeder all day, every day. Must be 2-3 dozen around, at 
least. And our neighbors 1/4 up the road have even more. Several nuthatches 
as well.

If you scroll down a few rows you'll see pictures of our visit last month to 
Santa Rosa Island in the Channel Islands Nat'l. Park (near LA). An island 
the size of Martha's Vineyard and we were the only ones there other than a 
couple of NPS rangers and some folks digging up a mammoth skull.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Marion Thompson
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 12:24 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Blue skies, smilin' at me...

Lovely -- and the other flora and fauna pics as well.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/17/2016 10:27 AM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
> Well, up here "on the frozen tundra" we have had several freezes - it got 
> down to 24 a few nights ago. OTOH, it was 72 here yesterday. I'm still 
> waiting for more freezes (none predicted for the next several days) before 
> harvesting the brussels sprouts and planting the garlic.
>
> We're a bit past peak foliage here, but it has been spectacular (as 
> usual) - here's a picture I took on a hike not far from here about 10 days 
> ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwohlers/29754148953/
>
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weigel
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 9:53 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Blue skies, smilin' at me...
>
> We've had a couple of light freezes, enough got S/O to ask me to bring the
> orchids in, so I did. But no hard freezes yet.
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 10/17/2016 8:54:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> While  we, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, are basking in Indian
>> summer.  Aaaaaaaah! Supposed to be sunny and 81 today. It was well into 
>> the
>> 70s  yesterday and I had all the windows in the house wide 
>> open.>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>> We'll be getting some of that in Pennsylvania, but we can't call it 
>> Indian
>> summer technically because it doesn't follow a hard freeze.  We haven't
>> had
>> any frost at all, and annuals such as impatiens and begonias are  still
>> in flower.  The early maple autumn coloration is at it's peak, but  the
>> oak peak will be another week or two.
>>
>>
>>
>> David S.
>>
>>
>>
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