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Autumn was all over us like a cheap suit.

Here is a small sample.

Down south autumn may just be starting. Anyone have any offerings?

That's very, very nice. Now...let's see about seven billion of them all at once. Hint: you're going to need a bit wider angle lens. :D

Nice leaf pic, fff.

That's interesting. I would have thought that leaves would turn brown from the outside in but what the heck do I know.

Not quite 7 billion of 'em...I don't have that wide a lens either.

Who knew red maple trees actually turn red in the fall?

Beautiful pictures, if only I had a good webcam. I made the most out of what I could take pictures of though.
Leaves:
http://embarktojamal.com/PICT0113.JPG
Pecans:
http://embarktojamal.com/PICT0116.JPG
And for some reason my ducks decided now was the best time to lay 30+ eggs under a shopping cart in 40 degree weather:
http://embarktojamal.com/PICT0100.JPG

Excellent photos, all! Thanks, folks. This is one of the things I love about The Cellar the most...the chance to share what other people are seeing in their lives.

I see dead people....uh....I mean dead leaves. :unsure:

Chlorophyll is green and dominant in most leaves, most plants for that matter. Anyway, in the fall the amount of light decreases below the level necessary to support the chlorophyll and it dies. When it’s gone, the secondary compounds can be seen.
Pigment Class------Compound Type--------------Colors
Porphyrin..............chlorophyll...........................green
Carotenoid............carotene and lycopene...........yellow, orange, red
Carotenoid............xanthophyll..........................yellow
flavonoid...............flavone...............................yellow
flavonoid...............flavonol...............................yellow
flavonoid...............anthocyanin.........................red, blue, purple, magenta

Ain't it purdy as a calendar picher. :juggle:

Thanks for the chem class Bruce,
At the master gardner class the guy doing the basic botany lecture told us that (My memory may be a bit dodgy here–– botanists beware) Chlorophyl in plants is actually its own organism which has developed a symbiotic relationship with plants. Somewhere along the evolutionary highway(oops, I forgot about our new mandate, my bad. I meant along the CREATIONIST highway) anyway, chlorophyl seems to have hitched a ride and now won't get out of the car.

I scanned that leaf. Another of my mad projects is to mount one of my view camera lenses to my scanner and make a $100. large format digital camera.

No shortage of ideas or hare brained schemes, just where is the time?

404, That is where the term "riot of color" comes from.
Wow. I miss CT autumns, they seemed to pace themselves better than upstate NY.

BOOM. Winter.


Carebear, What do duck eggs taste like? (please don't say chicken)
I love pecans. How is OK?

Uh, yeah. Speaking of BOOM, Winter, I just stepped outside to snap this picture of what CT looks like tonight. Guess the foliage season is over. :(

suppressing the urge to say chicken
I've actually never tried them. Supposedly you have to get the egg 1-3 days after it is layed for it to be edible, and we don't check that often. Although, with our last pair of ducks (we had to give them away because we mistakenly got them obese by feeding them catfood) our neighbor took a few eggs home to eat. I should ask them how they tasted sometime.
Oklahoma is having really strange weather right now, but it's really nothing surprising, we get strange weather alot. And that picture of pecans I took was from a 20 pound bag of them we gathered out back. 5 pecan trees produce alot. One pecan tree is merged with a berry tree and produces some odd colored pecans, but no taste difference unfortunately.

Duck eggs have a little stronger taste than chicken eggs. Anyone for 1000 year old eggs? Chinease or Vietnamese. Not really that old, but yuk

404,
Wow, That ghostly looking tree is so great! I'm seeing that as wall art.
Looks like the garden is down for the winter.

I've still got frozen tomatoes hanging on brown stems. bad bad.

Carebear,
I've heard that chicken tastes like rattlesnake :)

I like to collect walnuts. I put the husks in a 5 gallon pail with plain household ammonia and it makes a great walnut stain/dye. For wood or clothes.

I don't think pecans grow in zone 4 (-20ºf to -30ºf)

Yeah, Buster,
I wonder who thought up the idea for burying eggs in the ground until they were funkier than gym socks. Who was so hungry that when they found some old eggs that had been layed in a pile of manure and been forgotten about, they said: I'm gonna eat these?

I don't want to be that hungry.

Is that how walnut stain is actually made?

UT, I don't know about walnut stain, but it's extremely similar to walnut ink that's used to age paper in papercrafts.

I've got a dozen huge Black Walnut trees. When the nuts drop, the husks are almost the size of a baseball. The husk has a thin green skin covering the pulp which is almost black. They don't have to lay on the ground very long to become very mushy at which point it's almost impossible to pick them up without breaking the skin and if the juicy pulp touches your skin, you're stained a lovely walnut. That's it, end of story, it's not coming off, lovely walnut until that skin sloughs off.
Michael Jackson needs Black Walnuts. :guinea:

404, that snow pict brings back somewhat mixed feelings...this will be the first winter in the last 5 that I have not been in CT....miss the snow but damn the 84 degrees in SoFla today felt pretty good :)

guess I could get a picture the next time one of the fronds fall off one of the palm trees .. . :p

Yeah thanks FD, very funny. :eyebrow: Just remember though, next time you're sweating, cursing and fanning yourself with that palm frond in the 84 degree humidity my air conditioning bill is $0.00 right now... ;)

now where the hell did I put those damn snow shoes...

ok...then what is your gas/oil/electric heating bill like ?

My house up in Manchester was insullated well so our gas bills never exceeded ab out 190 during the absolute worst winter month....my electric bill here was right in the same range this year so it all works out. This house has 10 foot ceilings throughout the entire house (even the closets, go figure) so it is a lot of air to cool.

And like I said....I MISS the snow already .... really!

Well that, of course, is a different story. I try to stay warm by vigorously shoveling all that snow....oh, and burning the oil and electric bills in the fireplace helps too. :blush:

Black walnut pulp has been used for fishing. Pound them up, then put in water. Fish come to top. Trust me.

Nice last night, was cool & misting rain at Anvil shoot.

Just remember though, next time you're sweating, cursing and fanning yourself with that palm frond in the 84 degree humidity

Psh, you say that like 84 degrees is hot...

84 degree's is hot, it's gotta be below 50 for me to be comfortable.

Well, considering it's the middle of November and 24 degrees here in CT right now...it's a safe bet FD's not going to breaking out the snow shovels anytime soon. :cool:

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