Maple Watch: November 5

Day by day, the maple adds more color. This photo was taken on Wednesday the 5th about 1 p.m. All of these full views are taken from the far end of Barb's back yard. This is pretty much the view our neighbor Jacinta has when she goes out to get into her garage! Sadly, because of the height of the house, little of the maple is visible from the street.

Color has really deepened on the upper branches closest to the house, as this closeup shows. These are in the upper left of the big picture above.

Yet if one stands under the maple and looks up, there is till a lot of green yet to turn. Today has been overcast and a light rain fell before noon. I sat on the porch, drank coffee and read the paper until the mail came. The fine rain hitting the fallen leaves was so soothing! It's feeling a little cooler, so I came inside. Now the front is passing to the east and the sun is out. I'll see what kind of picture the maple takes today!

Meanwhile, in the tropics...I just looked and see there is yet another tropical storm--Paloma--forming off the coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. It's forecast to become a hurricane sometime tomorrow and to cut across the middle of Cuba on the weekend. Those folks have really been hammered this season. Imagine, named storms getting all the way to "P". Paloma means butterfly in Spanish, and it is the name of my neighbor Jacinta's older daughter.