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Colours
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Tisdale
by: Timothy W. Shire
images by: Judy and Timothy Shire
Tisdale
by: Timothy W. Shire
images by: Judy and Timothy Shire
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Though I sorely regret the passage of time as we have passed from summer to fall, there is such a wonder about us as we are able to walk outside without swatting bugs and taste the chilled fresh air. But most of all savour the colour.
It always begins with a few wimpy trees in the third week of August that decide that their growing season is over and they start the process of killing off their leaves who are left to change from green to something else, then wither and eventually fall to the ground. The remarkable thing is that the process is never ever the same, the sequence, the timing and the actual colours vary so much from year to year so that by mid September as most deciduous trees start to colour up the whole process can last for weeks or for only a few days, depending on wind, moisture and frost.
On this past weekend we drove up to Nipawin to check out the colours there and discovered that the streets in Tisdale where more colourful than the countryside or even Nipawin itself. Then came the high winds and I thought, oh oh that’s it they will all be gone but no, sure some fluttered off into the breeze but many more are hanging on to make things cheery and bright.
Tomorrow we are rolling the motorhome out of the yard one more time to seek and indeed find more colour before the ice of winter enfolds each footstep and tire tread.
Click here to see the small collection of fall pictures from this fall of 2015 with the hope that we will be add many more in the coming week or weeks.
It always begins with a few wimpy trees in the third week of August that decide that their growing season is over and they start the process of killing off their leaves who are left to change from green to something else, then wither and eventually fall to the ground. The remarkable thing is that the process is never ever the same, the sequence, the timing and the actual colours vary so much from year to year so that by mid September as most deciduous trees start to colour up the whole process can last for weeks or for only a few days, depending on wind, moisture and frost.
On this past weekend we drove up to Nipawin to check out the colours there and discovered that the streets in Tisdale where more colourful than the countryside or even Nipawin itself. Then came the high winds and I thought, oh oh that’s it they will all be gone but no, sure some fluttered off into the breeze but many more are hanging on to make things cheery and bright.
Tomorrow we are rolling the motorhome out of the yard one more time to seek and indeed find more colour before the ice of winter enfolds each footstep and tire tread.
Click here to see the small collection of fall pictures from this fall of 2015 with the hope that we will be add many more in the coming week or weeks.