Fall flowers and leaves
October 21st

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This Japanese maple is still green - but it will likely start changing colour any day now.

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The potted Japanese maple is turning bright red.

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This Icelandic poppy seems to think it's spring!

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One more small dahlia bud has turned into a blossom.

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There's a foxglove that thinks it's spring too!

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"The last rose of summer" - This one is on the new hot cocoa beside our back deck.

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There are a few begonia blossoms left - splashed with mud from the recent heavy rain!

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The Big Leaf Maple leaves are getting thin - a wind storm last weekend took most of them away.

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Buddha is still pondering his surroundings.

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The top vegetable bed has been cleared off.

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Here's where the maple leaves went. This is the second time that big bin was filled and there are a couple of bags that wouldn't fit in. The city will only pick up one "yard waste" bin each week.

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The hydrangea pompoms are starting to turn brown.

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Red leaves in our yard, and across a hedge to the neighbour's two doors over!

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The big leaf maples may be almost finished but the front yard cherry is just getting started dropping its leaves.

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The potted grasses make good leaf catchers!

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This one will be busy as it's closer to the cherry.

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Aack! This lawn was all cleared three days ago. Overnight wind and they're all back - and still some left in the trees to come down!

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The front deck is on the far side of the house from the Big Leaf Maples.

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There are even leaves in the flower baskets.

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