#NoPoles

My rose bushes are still covered in roses, my potentilla is still producing yellow flowers, and my gerbera daisy still has two fresh red flowers and thick green foliage. I figure I should go down to the pond and put my feet in the water and feed the fish while the weather is still enjoyable.

That's awesome, Gene! You will have to do an after flight, once the storm clears so we can see how bare the trees are

For personal reasons, I'd love to know any thoughts on how this plays out in the North Country, Thursday and Friday, if anyone cares to chime in...

Crickets in this thread...no posts for a week...ski season has started in CO at A-Basin and Keystone...Winter is Coming

Dec 12, 1982 Schaefer Stadium Snow Plow game. Pats Vs Dolphins

Gloria, April Fools Snow Storm, Monson/Rt 20 Tornado Top 3 Not sure I have 2 more. Non New England, I went through Super Typhoon Bart on Okinawa

I love how the track has always bent away from cape cod, then bends back toward cape breton and then straight shot to newfoundland...and im not in MA anymore so i cant even claim it's my curse...

I saw some eyewitness video of storm surge at least 25ft...im not sure of the elevation profile of Abaco but that would probably put most of the island under water

Last month, an entirely new round of hickory nuts started dropping. This new crop is getting annihilated by the squirrels. I never knew Hickories would produce two rounds of fruit. The ones I collected earlier and sent you, there was almost no squirrel interest. I guess the squirrels know the seasons will change soon and they are eating everything they can get their paws on.

I also edited my post, lol. And i told you not to worry about shipping costs do you have a plan yet for your hickories?

I think it is a cherry, the bark looks like individual blocks, the leaves are narrow and toothed and are a dark waxy green. The fruit looks like a wild cherry. Im most used to seeing black cherry in SNE, and prunus fasciculata out west...

I won't be surprised if Josh doesn't make it, or he gets seriously injured.

When I was on Parris Island, we had TS conditions that shut down training for 1 day but we didnt have to evac. I bet they are trying to decide if they need to pack up all the recruits and move them inland.

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Striped Maple : Reproduction A flowering striped maple. (Flickr user pverdonk, 2013). The striped maple is a flowering tree, or angiosperm. Interestingly, the striped maple can be either dioecious (only male or female flowers on an individual tree) or monecious (both male and female flowers on the same tree). When dioecious, this maple can also change from a male to a female tree. As an understory tree, it can sometimes get shaded out by other trees. In a last-ditch effort to propagate, the tree will change from male to female and put all of its energy into forming seeds.

A few days ago in one of the other threads, i saw some of our mets posting about an north east turn and Dorian was not going to hit FL. I can't remember who all was posting that, but i do remember DIT chiming in and saying no turn, Dorian is heading straight for FL. Interesting now to see the newest model runs hinting at that recurve...we shall see

Reaching the point of no return in regards to Saddleback. Another wasted warm season means another winter of staying shuttered

If you Insta, follow the american chestnut project

I need to follow this account. Was it tamarack who said 1 in every 4 trees used to be a chestnut? That statistic is correct. Our forests used to be drastically different. Southern New England used to be oak chestnut dominant...i wish i had a time machine to go back and see how the forests originally looked

The really sad thing ive noticed down here is there are still chestnuts trying to grow. Most of them gave up the ghost long ago in New England. They seem to get in 2-4 years of growth down here before the blithe takes over. So sad, such gorgeous trees that got wiped out

when i first gathered them they were all green

Omg, Bamboo is a disaster. Invasive species. It is easier to control in climates where the soil freezes for a certain period of time over the winter. But, borrowing from Jurassic Park, Life Finds A Way! My boss wants to plant some in the park here in Nashville. Oddly enough, the park was built on land owned by the Gordon Jewish Community Center. The Holocaust Memorial is maybe 20ft away from the park boundary. I am shocked this was approved as OK. So now the powers that be want to put up a vegetation wall...and they have settled on Bamboo...this is going to be interesting!

Ray took some live video via FB yesterday and it shows how deep the snow is with his ruler, and it also shows how much is piled up cars etc...it is a great visual reference

I think you should share your pics and live video with Harvey and Eric so that they can get a visual.

Blue Hills had a weather conference that winter. My friend and I went, and that's where I met scituatewx. Paul Kocin was there. We all went up to the observatory and my friend and I hung out with Kocin and watched the radar, and basically cried together. If there had been a bar in the observatory we would have been drunk.