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It's a between-season time out here in the RV Park near the wetlands. Most of the summer flowers (wild and tame) are gone, but there's not much Fall color yet. It's still sunny most days after cool foggy mornings.
Wildflowers are ghosts of their former selves. Cattails (which would be perfect for Autumn arrangements) have already gone to seed. A week of hot weather did them in.
The good local apples haven't appeared at the Farmer's Market yet, but abandoned old trees out along the street where we walk to the wetlands have fruit. (These apples might be OK to make applesauce out of, if you were careful. But because the trees aren't cared for, the fruit isn't good to eat out-of-hand.)
These trees are survivors — planted years ago when people used to farm this wetland area. Before the flood-control reservoir was built.
School started a couple of weeks ago, and while Autumn hasn't quite officially begun in this hemisphere, it always feels like Fall as soon as those yellow buses start appearing on our country road – — even for those of us who are years and years past living on a school schedule.
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