Chilly Colors

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Surprizingly, this week there's still a few colors out across the street. It won't be long now, n we'll be back in the grey dingies n fog of winter again. We just did our coldest overnight (early am Sat) so far.
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I've been throwing my customary stale bread offerings out for the squirrels who are nearby hidernating. When they hear my short burst "Food!," they know it's fill-up time. I know there's some small birdies visiting the feeders outside my kitchen window, but although it sounded like a woodpecker chopping away, waking me up, I was unable to see thru the foggy glass today. I hate that. So does Mischief. She misses her window show.
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My location draws in the small avian species. The regular window visitors are Nuthatch, Grey-tufted Titmouse, n Chickadee. Ocassionally Finches n Downy Woodpeckers get brave (hungry) enough to perch close to the house too. I wonder how many generations of their families I've kept alive here for the past 21 years...
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My drive NorthWest this week made me leave the sunny stuff at home behind n head into the mountain mist for almost the entire drive. Heading into the fog seems to be inevitable these days.
On my way back in the lighter, cooling night-air mist near Orange, there was bulldozer removing a poor, departed, heavy critter from the middle of the highway going the opposite direction. I could only see a belly n droopy legs, enough to surmise it was probably a horse, mule, or possibly a moose. Hitting something like that in the fog must be a horror show- The involved vehicle wasn't visible. That'll make ya drive slower...
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Right by the water here, weather can be so totally different than everywhere else, as the top of a Mountain is colder because of higher elevation, right here tends to be warmer than even a mile inland, due to the ocean water still being warmer than the air Temperature.
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When I leave work, just a few miles inland, there'll be ice crystals on the grass, n icy-mist exhale breath walking to the car. When I get home, it's not even frozen yet, until yesterday, that is.
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For today's Day-Off I'm sporting 3 layers n keeping the bottles in this comfy chair refilled often with hot-kettle-water. I'm still trying not to run-up the electric heat bill. As long as it's not freezin the pipes yet, I'll deal with it.
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It was chilly out there snapping these pics of the last, lingering leaves hanging onto their spent support on Friday.
I've noticed it's tougher getting up out of the blankets n waking the fog from my brain.
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The last, lovely, sunny tree colors will be missed from across the road, for a long season, except when I check up on Bloggy here. The Creator makes the best things for me to look at, so even in the fog, I remember nature's beauty.