[Magdalen] The Last Rose of Summer.

[Jay Weigel]

Our trees have barely begun turning here. It's weird. My tomatoes and the
lemon cucumbers look awful but ate still producing...sort of...as are the
Japanese peppers. The walnuts and acorns are plentiful and the squirrels
are fat and sassy. We have squirrels in abundance, some the size of small
cats, probably the biggest in the neighborhood. Sadly, there has been no
sight for some weeks of the big cat we call Captain, the Scourge of
Squirrels, nor of the black and white one we call Deputy. The only one
we've seen is the White one with tabby patches that we've named Rookie.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:38 PM Chad Wohlers <chad at satucket.com> wrote:

> I still have tomatoes & peppers producing (kind of) in the greenhouse.
> Picked the last of the outdoors tomatoes a couple of weeks ago – they’re
> now part of some very hot salsa.
>
> Foliage season is pretty much over here. Beeches are turning and are quite
> pretty until they get a dull brown. Popple trees (quaking aspen) are just
> starting to turn. Maples are pretty much bare now, and birches and cherries
> are nearly there.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> chad at satucket.com
> Woodbury, VT    USA
>
> From: Jay Weigel
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:21 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] The Last Rose of Summer.
>
> We're still getting tomatoes in the Sky Garden.
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:47 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > The USA Northeast has been unusually warm, wet and humid all summer
> > and well into the autumn.  As a result, the trees give the appearance of
> > mid-summer and the fall colors are essentially absent.  It is the
> > wettest year ever recorded here in the Pennsylvania Poconos
> >
> > It's all very odd.  I used to think of Saint Luke's Day (18th October)
> > as being the peak of coloration, but not this year.
> >
> > There are now some cooler days, and autumn may once again
> > dominate.
> >
> >
> > David S.
> >
> >
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