IrishRob17

Greta

My wife has been doing it for 20 plus years, no kids trying that with her, that would be a big mistake. That said, it’s incredible how soft parents in general have become. I set these up all the time, glad to see you slammed this one home, we have to pick up our game as we head into the busy season.

My wife is a preschool teacher, I have no idea how she does it LOL

Especially if their wedding day is in June... Congratulations!

Typically you want a wet spring and dry fall for vibrant colors but they don’t hold on as long so we’ll see. I definitely have trees dropping leaves here. .93” for the month here

I have to check my rain total for the month later but the Wallkill is really slow and low.

Around the park

KMGJ up the road at 36 now, the meso at Wallkill down to 35.

First 30s of the season here, 38 currently with the 1st floor of the house at 62. Lovely weather.

What coast?

Got down to delightful 42 this morning.

I’m with ya, the more I learn the more I realize there is to learn

So you’re only going to be posting in this thread? Please advise.

I set the over/under at 15

Good thing they had an umbrella to keep dry...

I second that, I read it after you recommended it before and it was well worth the read.

Over 20 years now for many of us....or is it some of us?

You’ve been on for 6 years already? Where the hell does the time go, I remember when you worked at the drug store.

Is your garden under trees too? Maybe @Juliancolton can help you site a rain gauge in the garden as well?

I have some at the top of another sugar maple in my yard but it’s even harder to get a photo of that one. A sugar maple in in Goshen outside my office also has orange, it’s crazy.

Hard to tell from this photo but there are oranges in there, earliest I ever seen those leaves change.

I have a couple of sugar maples that look like parts of them are ready to turn, I’ll try to take photos tomorrow. And it’s become rather evident in my hood the damage that the emerald ash borer has done

@Snow88 took some heat in the main thread after his comment about the leaves and sunset up here. Well, the sun doesn't set at 7:15pm, in Orange County today's sunset is 7:37pm but we have lost 35 minutes on the sunset this month to date, with 8/1's sunset time of 8:15pm here. As far as the leaves, there are definitely changes happening although many wouldn't necessarily recognize the change unless they study the trees all season long. The leaves now certainly do not look like they did a month ago as they take on that lighter more tired look, the deeper greens of earlier in the growing season are long gone on most of the trees around me. You always have the younger and/or stressed trees changing early and I've seen some of that. What has really caught my eye the past couple of days is that the poison ivy has already flipped to red in many spots here. Granted that poison ivy is one of the first things to turn but I don't recall it changing so early before but that could be because the past two sucky foliage seasons are still stuck in my mind when it took forever for things to change and it wasn't pretty when they did. Anyone else notice any of this around here?

I had a patch of the lawn that looked similar to above and could not figure it out a couple of years ago. Then while mowing a clump of grass just rolled up and then I realized it was grubs again. It had been 11 seasons since I had applied milky spore and they were back. After I treated the whole yard, including flower beds, again with milky spore I haven’t seen them in a couple of years again.