fall is here..

[thistlebloom]

I don't know if I should worry about any single tree pest but the drought has been very hard on many trees. Will they be attacked by pests next year? I think it may be inevitable.

Steve
EDIT: irrigated alfalfa. dang auto-correct!

We're seeing a lot of trees that are suffering/dying from bark beetle. our chainsaws will be busy soon cutting them down.
In the residential areas where I work there is a lot of balsam wooly adelgid damage. It's not an easy pest to get rid of evidently.

Subzero winter temperatures and a cold wet spring are helpful in the control if it's spread, something we didn't get this last season, and probably won't get this coming season either.
This weird warmth has me feeling very uneasy.

 

[Nyboy]

In southern NY the drought has effected fall color. Very little reds mostly green to yellow/ brown.

 

[majorcatfish]

fil send us a photo from home today...

 

[Carol Dee]

fil send us a photo from home today...
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Beautiful part of the country especially in the fall.

 

[Carol Dee]

A view down Main St to the West.

From our Maples tree

 

[majorcatfish]

fil has a dark room in the basement, he does black&white mainly old glass plate of the wellsville area way before any of us were born. down in his barn he has a wall dedicated to these photos...

 

[Nyboy]

Carol love the photo view of main st. The trees lined up, different colors nice

 

[ninnymary]

fil send us a photo from home today...
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I love this picture. I love storms and dark cloudy skies. That white church looks so pretty there. Where was it taken?

Mary

 

[Carol Dee]

I saw these on Pinterest and thought, I can do that!
So I did, here are the roses from some of our maple leaves.

 

[baymule]

Well aren't you smart!