Autumn Is Icumen In
Looks like the weather finally got the memo, though it's still a little (like, a degree or two) above average for mid-October. Maybe the leaves will turn now, though from what I saw the gingko trees are already well on their way to doing their spectacular leaf-dump. Seriously--it's like they're all clones or something, because they do this thing where they'll all go yellow at the same time and then one day splat, all the leaves fall off over the course of about 36 hours.
The sycamores, of course, have been turning brown since roughly mid-July. Am I the only one who finds sycamores to be spectacularly ugly trees? They're spindly and their bark looks like it's sluffing off and their leaves look dried up and half-dead even in April. And yet people continue to plant more of them. We are not the two-shirt-a-day city any longer and resistance to pollution is no longer the cardinal virtue to be looked for in trees (and I admit, sycamores are better than no trees at all).