Pictures From the Park

This last set of pictures comes from the park across the street from where I live.  These pictures cover a three or four day period in late October.

Color Within the City

Within the city where I live, it is possible to find a few secluded spots where the trees are particularly pretty.  As a colorblind person, I sometimes have problems distinguishing the subtleties because the reds in the first picture tend to create big splotches of color. The farmstead in the second picture is now threatened with an industrial park and the construction of houses to the south. That construction is not visible in pictures two through six.

Autumnal Transformation

This autumn has been a particularly colorful one where I live. I am adding two pictures below that show the transformation in one scene over the course of four or five days.

A Moment of Sunlight

When I was taking a walk near the Missouri River the other day, I managed to witness a moment when the sunlight revealed itself but for a few minutes in an otherwise cloudy day. Fortunately, I had my camera and managed to get a few shots.

During my walk, I overheard one homeowner say to another that the number of acorns has been unusually heavy this year and that the squirrels have been busy gathering both acorns and walnuts. She didn’t attach significance to these things, but a large crop of acorns and the squirrels collecting unusually large amounts of nuts point toward a long and severe winter, I’ve discovered. One of our local weather prognosticators says that the pattern of winter weather has started to set up and will continue to set up through November. The severity of the winter, he says, won’t be fully visible until the pattern repeats itself, starting in December. We’ll have to see.