Posted by: me

The early-turning trees around our village are showing their first colour.

So, this is really ramping up. The word around our county is that the colour-changing has begun early this year. I heard a lady quipping at the pool the other day that the trees are fed up with the hot, dry summer (as are we), and decided to revolt.

Often our colour peak is nicely past Canadian Thanksgiving (second weekend in October); other times it lands right on Thanksgiving. This year we are wondering if it may even be just before.

We have a family trip coming up over Thanksgiving weekend in the beautiful Québec Laurentian mountains, and, I tell ya', the colour peak there is beautiful beyond words (see photo below - not mine). We have been to Vermont a number of times, and the views are stunningly similar.  ♥

The temps warm up here a bit mid-week to the mid-20s Celsius / 77F, but thankfully they don't stay there long. Back down to late teens or 20C by the week's end. And nighttime temperatures will be ranging from 5-12C / 41-53F, really lovely for sleeping!

We have a bit of rain in the forecast for tomorrow, but then nothing for the next week, which is concerning, as we are still far behind what we should have had. Thankfully any 'heat waves' are now in the past, so at least we are not dealing with high heat and humidity as well. 

This is a sample of what we have to look forward to ...