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| 10/22/20 Greenwood neighborhood |
These three maples on Dayton Avenue are just a few blocks from the Fred Meyer where I pick up groceries each week, so I’ve been checking on them regularly. When I first started checking at the end of September, barely a leaf had turned. They still aren’t at peak – they seem late this year – but since sunny skies are scarce and undependable these days, I took advantage of a lovely afternoon last week to sketch them.
Because I try to sketch them annually (I missed them last year), it’s fun to look back on my blog and see what they looked like at around the same time of year. In 2016 and 2018, I sketched them in September, even as early as Sept. 10, and at least one of the trio had more color then they did last week (see below).
9/29/16 
9/10/18
In 2017, the first week of October showed them with about as much color as now. The latest date in the season that I could find for having sketched them was Oct. 19, 2018, and my post for that sketch laments that I missed their peak of color (both below). So my hunch was right: The sketch I made on Oct. 22 this year is now the latest date in the season, and the maples are nowhere near peak. If the weather holds out, I might still have another chance to sketch them.
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| 10/19/18 |
Glad that the color is lasting a while. We have been having weather like you usually have, foggy and misty with no sunshine. What color we do have on the trees is definitely looking muted due to the conditions. I'm hoping for some sun to shine on them and make the colors rich...but I don't know if that is in the forecast. lol
ReplyDeleteWeather patterns have definitely been strange coast to coast this year. Let's both hope for a bit more sunshine before we have to settle into the winter!
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