I was out walking a couple of days ago and noticed that the leaves are starting to turn brilliant colours again which usually means I can kiss summer goodbye for this year.

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I was even chilly enough that at a couple of points, when the breeze picked up, I wished I had a pair of gloves and it was still a couple of degrees above freezing.

Well this morning it was minus 1 degree.

It’s a gorgeous morning and the air is clear of everything but sunshine, very bright out.

I will wait a few more hours I guess before heading out for my walk as it’s suppose to go up to 17 today, so later it will be just perfect for walking. The sun will be high enough in the sky not to blind me on my walk and the temp will be high enough I won’t need gloves today.

We have a few vines growing along our property fence so that we can see which vines we like the most before ripping out the things we don’t like. Well there is a vine growing that I see all over Moncton and when they fall colours come out they win my vote for a property fence.

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snowball-treeThen there are snowball trees and hydiranges that change from bright white to pink when the temperature drops and they can stay like that for most of the winter if they don’t get blasted with too much high winds.

We don’t have any in our yard yet but we will have a couple of these beauties by next spring so that we can eventually enjoy their beauty without leaving home to see them.

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