Fall Flowers, Leaves, and Parks

Cool building on the Alfred campus, where Walt took his Math GRE

Ready for picking, the recent colder nights seemed to sweeten them up.

Due to the weird summer weather, this was the only gladiola out of 30+ that bloomed

Hurry up, Pappy! This is the East rim trail  at Stoneybrook, we've never hiked this side before.

End of the East trail, near the campgrounds. Post Labor Day, the park is free, and free of people. Just a couple young hikers and old people with dogs.

Back yard, October 3, trees are finally turning. It looks like ours are the earliest, it's still fairly green around town and towards Bath.

By the mailbox, October 4. I picked a bunch of apples across the road yesterday, looks like they're smaller than normal, but plentiful.

Can you see the woodpecker on the trunk? He was huge. Time to put out the pecker feeders.

These turkeys spent the better part of 3 days wandering around the back yard. It was driving Buffy nuts. We finally let her out, and she happily chased them. They'd make a horrible racket, fly up to the trees, then come back. Either they are a fan of dogs or incredibly dumb.

All she could retrieve were a couple feathers, which she proudly carried around and then spent a long time licking.