4 November 2023
Right through October Pittsburgh’s town neighborhoods had now not skilled a freeze, even if it used to be felt within the outlying spaces. That modified at the first two days of November with a whisper of snow. We nonetheless had fall colours sooner than the freeze. There are brown leaves and naked timber in our long term.
At most sensible, landscaping crops are steadily bred to maximise fall colour as noticed on a cultivated witch hazel on 28 October.
The oozing “sweat” beads in this polypore mushroom are simply the appropriate colour for autumn.
Heavy mist on 29 October clung to decorative grasses at Phipps Conservatory.
Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) used to be nonetheless blooming ultimate week. Alas, it’s invasive.
The daybreak redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) at Phipps exchange colour sooner than they lose their needles.
Fall colour used to be muted on a misty morning in Schenley Park, 29 October.
(pictures through Kate St. John)