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It's Garbage Day
58 degrees and dry at 6:45 a.m.
The Weather Forecast from YNN: "More unsettled weather is expected on Monday as a cold front moves through bringing the return of more seasonable temperatures.
Our forecast: We'll see clouds with some breaks of sunshine this afternoon. A spotty shower or two will be possible though most of the time will be dry. It will be quite breezy with gusts to 35 mph at times. Temperatures will run a good ten degrees above average with highs near 70.
We'll see mostly cloudy skies tonight with a few spotty showers possible, especially as we head toward daybreak on Monday. It will be very windy with gusts upwards of 50 mph. It will be mild with lows in the 50s."
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1925 - 2012
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IN THE MAIL
Some roses are at their best this time of the year - like this single pink rose, blooming at the home of Ron and Margaret Bornick up in the hills East of Clinton.
That picture may have been taken before Friday afternoon when this happened .......
I know: it's out of focus and you have no idea what it is, but it's a close-up of my windshield as I was coming southward over Hanover Hill. Do you see those little white blobs?
Yup! It was snow!
And on Saturday morning, with the temperature at 27 degrees and the lawns covered with a heavy frost, Carin Zwahlen sent me an E-note to say that it was "raining ginkgo leaves."
By Sunday afternoon, both their ginkgo tree, in Sangerfield, and the one at the Crowes, on Buell Avenue, were completely bare.
What makes Ginkgo Trees so unusual - other than their beautiful fan-shaped leaves?
From Wikipedia: Also spelled gingko and known as the maidenhair tree, is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives. The ginkgo is a living fossil, as a unique species recognisably similar to fossils dating back 270 million years. Native to China, the tree is widely cultivated and introduced early in human history, and has various uses as a food and in traditional medicine.
Many of the trees around the pond next to Madison Street are bare, as well, and Canada Geese, on their way South for the Winter, had stopped for an overnight stay.
Leaves have covered lawns within the village, bringing many villagers - like Debby Lucas of Madison Street, above, and Mr. Pesto of Babbott Avenue, below, out with their rakes and/or blowers.
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Out in the country, over near Solsville, I stopped to look at the heaps of brilliant red berries on Black Alder, growing - alas! - in a watery swamp.
On an old barn at the Corner of Burnham Road and Route 12B.
At Pryputniewicz', North of the Village on Route 12, there's a whole yard-full of pumpkins, squash (Hubbard, acorn, butternut, spaghetti and more) potatoes, onions, brussel sprout by the stalk and heaps of cabbages!
These two youngsters found exactly what they wanted!
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COMING EVENTS
This Week At the Library
Wednesday Movie Matinée at 1:00
Family Movie at 6:00 on Thursday
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ALL WCS SPORTS
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THE MARSHALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
October 18, 2012, 7:30 pm:
"The Stoltzfus Dairy Operation",
a presentation by Vern Stoltzfus.
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"MVAS"
(The Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society)
invites the public to a
"Star gazing"
at
New Hartford Sherrill Brook Park,
Rt 12 S,
on the basketball court,
Sat. Oct. 20th,
dusk to 11 pm weather permitting.
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FOR THE RECORD
TOMORROW IS GREEN WASTE COLLECTION
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More when it happens!
Have a good day, everyone!
