I hate daylight savings time. During the night time switched back an hour and I have felt slightly off balance all day, It will start getting dark at 5 PM today and then by the time the winter solstice rolls around in six weeks, it will be dark by 4pm.
Winter days are often cloudy and dark and daylight savings time only serves to make us feel like we have even less sunshine.
More and more leaves are beginning to fall from the trees, but depending on where you look there are still patches of stunning color
This photo was taken this week in the Japanese garden at the local botanical garden.
I posted this photo earlier this week in Waves, but for those of you that missed it this is a Tamarack, or American larch (Larix laricina). It is a native conifer that is unique because it is deciduous. It sheds its needles in the fall after turning yellow.
This charming new snackbar/restrooms building was recently added in the botanical garden. The crabapple trees are beautiful in the springtime when they are in bloom and the apples will support wildlife this winter.
These milk cap mushrooms have popped up all over the neighborhood this week. Not one that I would risk eating!
