Greetings and welcome!
Yesterday was sure the wrong day to forget the camera. The fall colors are fantastic, and I had an up close visit with a nice buck.
The fall colors are the best in recent memory. The early maples are really putting on a fine display. The vivid red, orange, and sometimes even purples were really stark. Wednesday and Thursday the rest of the show started catching up as the beech and cottonwood trees started getting in on the act, along with the sumac and some of the underbrush.
In recent years it seemed like the early maples would get stripped of their leaves by wind or rain before the rest of the show caught up. That wasn’t the case yesterday. My ride down by Caldron and High Falls Flowages was like a post card. The road was like a path through a hallway of vivid fall color. The overcast sky offset the show and made it even more vivid.
On the ride to and from Wausaukee the hillsides were starting to come in too. What were just splashes of color here and there early week are now becoming a scenic patchwork.
What I don’t know is how the rain over the weekend will affect the show. If the rain stays light with little wind, the wet world and overcast skies will enhance the color like someone turned the color saturation knob a little farther than they should have. If we see a lot of heavy rain and wind, it cold strip some of the vivid early colors.
We are expecting a good bit of rain over the weekend. There is a front expected to set up over the state and several storms are predicted to travel down it like train cars on a track. There is some debate if it will clear up in time to save some of Sunday, or if it will be a Friday-Monday rainy period.
The buck.. I was at X and Parkway heading north a little before sunset last night. I stopped for the stop sign and saw a deer in the ditch a little ways ahead grazing in the ditch. I idled the car ahead up by the deer and it turned out to be a pretty nice 6 point buck (8 if you count brow tines). He didn’t run away, and I pulled up next to him and stopped. It ended up being about a minute that we just looked at each other with him about six feet outside my passenger window. The whole time I was just kicking myself that I had forgotten the camera. Finally another car came through the intersection and he bolted.
I have been seeing a few other deer in my travels this week and really a lot of turkeys up by the road. I am not sure what the attraction is, but travels to and from work have brought multiple flocks on each trip. Keep an eye out for those, I can tell you first hand that they will do a lot of damage if you smack one with the car.
The only event that I have for this weekend is the Wausaukee Fall Festival..
4th Annual Wausaukee Fall Fest – Saturday October 5th- Downtown Wausaukee from 9 am – 3 pm – Crafters & Vendors, Bake Sale, Farmers Market , Food & Refreshments, Live Music – Beer Garden, Kids games, and American Legion Bingo at 11 am. That is held behind Bank North in the big lot there, and the village shops usually get in on the celebration too.
That is my update for today. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB