Today's Flowers: If you don't like the weather, stick around for an hour

This has been a week of contrasts, weather wise.



We've had days warm up enough for confused yellow jackets to wake up.



We've had gray days, foggy days, sunny days, warm days, and cold days.



Tonight (Friday) it's dropping down to the 20s farenheit (-4 celcius) so I don't imagine too many flowers will be left for for my lunch time walks at work next week.



I would love to get some frost on roses shots but since my roses are all gone, I'm unlikely to this weekend. I doubt I'll get up early on a Saturday morning to find some frosty roses. I'll be sleeping in. Hopefully the roses up against the office building I work in will be protected enough for some frosty roses shot next week before they all drop off.  

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The Weekend in Black and White: Abandoned

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Sky Watch Friday: Blue Skies for a change

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Nature Notes and Our World: Early November

It's feeling and looking more and more like fall in my neck of the woods.



Hard to believe that winter is around the corner.



After many years of working primarily from home I have started commuting to work more and more which is making me less eager for a snowy winter this year.



Starting next week I'll be working in the office 5 days a week which I haven't done since 2001.



In some ways I don't mind because I have some flexibility about when I come in and leave and I'm sure if we do have a snowy winter like last year I can work from home on days when the commute would be hairy.



However, this time of the year last year I was hoping for some pretty snow and we had a lot more snow than usual which I enjoyed. We never know what we'll get since some years we don't have any snow and others quite a bit for our part of the world.



This year I'm hoping for a moderate winter.



We had a moderate summer which was nice so maybe winter will follow suit.



For now, I'm enjoying a colorful fall provided courtesy of the leaves although the sky has been gray much of the time.



The first shot was a lunchtime walk this past week, and the rest of the shots are from a Sunday walk today.



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