2021 what did you do today?

[Mad Max]

We have some nice weather down here the past few weeks and more to come.
Nice pictures guy's

[Pat B]

We still don't have much color here at lower elevations(2600') but it's supposed to be at peak along the Blue Ridge Parkway(5000'+). We may take a ride up there tomorrow.
Here are a few pics from home this morning. A bit too hazy and bright to see much color. Many of the poplars, maples and cherries have lost their leaves but the oaks are still green and showing little other color.
...this color is a sourwood. They usually change color way earlier than any other trees.

...looking at the hill to the south of us.

[Mad Max]

My Dogwood last year in the front yard.

[Buemaker]

Maple leaves on our yearly får i kål dinner.

[Buemaker]

Tips almost finished.

[Flem]

Nice table setting I'm thinking that would be a good dinner to be invited too!

This is my fall color. One young Maple tree, not native!
Oh and a cute little Buck can just be seen in the background, having a snack in the garden. We just open it up at the end of the season, that or the critters will start busting down the gates

[Roy from Pa]

Nice pictures guys.

Flem close the gate and keep him...

Rainy day here on the mountain, have a load of wood coming at 1.

After that we'll probably take the girls for a walk.

[kennym]

Caught a boatload of Crappie so far

[Bob D]

Bue, nice tips and nice table setting. Looks like you are all going to have a good time, except for the sheep of course.

[Roy from Pa]

Anyone know what type of tree this is?

[kennym]

Gotta be a Mongolian Tulip... 

[Roy from Pa]

Either that or black gum...

[kennym]

I'm stickin with tulip, color is right...

[Roy from Pa]

Ok tulip boy...

[Pat B]

Flowering dogwood(Cornus florida). The buds are next years flowers. They typically have this years fruit and next years flower buds at this time of year.
 Roy, looks like your girls are enjoying their new digs and obviously patiently awaiting their walk.

[Roy from Pa]

Thanks Pat.
I did a search and found black gum that looked very similar but dogwood trees are pretty.
Yes the girls are doing great, cept we pulled 2 ticks off the white one today.
That's to be expected up here.

[wood carver 2]

Maple leaves on our yearly får i kål dinner.

Bue, those maple leaves under the candle holders gave me an idea for some Christmas gifts. 😁
Dave.

[Pat B]

Roy, I give my dogs Ivomec (for cows and pigs)as a heartworm treatment once a month. I get it from Tractor Supply. I buy it in the injection type 50ml. bottle(1% solution) and use a 1cc syringe giving each 1/10th cc per 10# of dog. My dogs get .50cc for one and .60 for the other. I mix it with a raw egg and they lap it up. Since I started using it my dogs don't have other worms or internal parasites or fleas or ticks. In the spring we might find a tick walking on them but none attached. The problem using Ivomec for this is folks are using it for CoVid( ) so it might be hard to find. Our vet approves of using it on our dogs and it is way cheaper than heartworm meds the vets offer.
 If you get it, leave the needle in the rubber top and just attach the syringe when needed. A 50ml bottle cost about $40 (before CoVid)but will last 2 or 3 years.
 And, don't forget to spray your cloths with Permanone you don't get ticks either. Lyme disease is pretty prevalent up there.

[Pat B]

BTW, flowering dogwoods are an understory tree rarely getting over 20 or so feet tall. Black gum(Nissa sylvatica) is a full size tree getting 50' and over in height. Black gum has black fruit or blue/black fruit. Both are edible but dogwood fruit is not very palatable. Deer like both especially in a low hard mast year.

[Flem]

Hard mast, is that acorns and nuts?  What time of year do the acorns drop?