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[Wandering Sagebrush]

Two days ago it was 89° at Dinosaur NM. We’re home now to lots of rain and temps in the 50’s. Going over Cabbage Hill yesterday, we saw 38°.

[ski3pin]

Dogwood is starting to turn red in the under story.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Same with the dogwood in the yard... it knows.

[MarkBC]

New snow visible on Mt Shasta today as I drove by on US 97. Not heavy, but maybe almost as low as timberline.

[ski3pin]

Snow at Carson Pass today.

[Mighty Dodge Ram]

Days are in the 80s. Has dropped into the high 50s last several nights. Time for the wife to pull out the fall wardrobe. 😂

[Smokecreek1]

Rain here, new snow on Diamond Mountain just to the south of here (FYI-DM marks the end of the Sierra's) and clouds are blocking my view to the north and the start of the Modoc Plateau and Cascade Mtn range. . They say it is supposed to get into the high 70's 0r 80's this weekend!

 

Smoke

[MarkBC]

In the fall, some humans go out to harvest wild game. Squirrels harvest pine nuts, and they leave their "gut piles" on my deck!

All the visible debris (except maybe the dead pine needles, which fall anyway) are the result of squirrels working in the Ponderosa pine over my deck.


Collateral damage: Why must they clip off live bits of the tree? Sloppy, wasteful work by the squirrels.


Note the core of pine cone, circled, after the nutty goodness has been harvested.

[MarkBC]

The forecast for Bend this weekend into Monday could almost be winter:

 

[graphic courtesy Weather Underground]

[Vic Harder]

Brrrr