Fall Colors

 Well, there is nothing as Beautiful up here in the North than the turning of the leaves and the changing season from summer to fall !

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The Leaves dropping and changing over by our little Park here in Deferiet !

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The main Highway, Route # 3 going up into the Adirondack Mountains, this is believe it or not as slippery as Ice when these leaves get wet as there is little traction on them !

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The  Canadian Geese are flying over in bigger and bigger flocks and most of them are heading South !

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   Woolly bear caterpillars—also called woolly worms—have a reputation for being able to forecast the coming winter weather. If their rusty band is wide, then it will be a mild winter. The more black there is, the more severe the winter.  This one looks the same on each end !

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The Beech Nuts are plentiful and these are delicious and also the deer and squirrels and other critters love them, with so many of them this is supposed to be a sign of a Hard Winter !

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Butternuts are also plentiful, when picking butternuts you wait till they drop to the ground and wear gloves as the juice from them stain your skin black/brown, and they need to be dried for a month so the outer shell is brittle then they can be cracked open.  One custom is every Fall in the Masonic Lodge here is we have some nice Lady make our Lodge a Butternut Cake with Maple Syrup Frosting !!YUMMY !!!

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Once cracked open carefully you gently pick the white nut out and they are delicious,  They also look almost identical to a Black Walnut but don't see them up here too often !

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Down near the river they are a lot of old Oak Trees and they are loaded with Acorns and the ground is also, sure are a lot of them this year !!!!!    Critters usually gather them all up an haven't seen this many in a few years,  Just might be Mother Nature telling us to fill the Freezer and Root Cellar for this Winter !

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