Winter Milkweed

- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: +3/10EV
- Focal length: 219.82mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/1000s
Many years after its demise … helped along by woodpeckers
A bramble bush almost ready to drop its leaves – so much colour this year
The remnants of a pile of cut logs caught our eyes today. Looks very much as if the pile has been remodelled for gnomes with rows of moss and turf-roofed houses and lanes between them.
A week ago these trees were heavy with gloriously golden leaves. Last night the temperature dropped to -2C and this morning all the leaves are on the ground. There was ice in puddles. Snow can’t be far away.
In the arboretum on Thanksgiving weekend and also, coincidentally, our Golden Wedding anniversary, the light was truly golden.
A few thousand years ago as the last age was melting, what is now Montreal was mostly at the bottom of a huge sea. Gradually the water levels fell and islands appeared. This bank was once a lakeshore shelving down into the water and this forest is now growing on what was once a sandy beach.
This seashore is in the Arboretum.