An Autumn Day in Muskoka
It has been a spectacular week. Members of my family may recognize some of these views ;)
The leaves above were actually bright yellow. I tried taking a similar photo in a different spot but couldn't capture the colour with my iPhone. They just appear green. This is a basswood, also known as a lime tree or a linden tree. We're thinking of putting a nursery specimen or two in our backyard at home to replace the crab apple trees that fell victim to fire blight in 2017.
This enormous beech tree beside our road and near our hydro line is now felled, thanks to Ontario Hydro. It succumbed a few years ago to an insect and fungal (combined) disease that is killing beech trees in this province. A pileated woodpecker started to work on the base of the trunk and we started to fear the worst, so now it's on the ground and small pieces of it are making their way to our fireplace.
(for scale)
The deer harvested the coleus when we weren't looking.
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