Corrales bosque autumn hues. 😍
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Chrysomela scripta, the cottonwood leaf beetle. They like all the root suckers that grow up in the pasture. Must be something about the new leaves on the new growth. They're not a problem because these all get cut off eventually so they can eat as much as they want.
High Desert Autumn Color. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
A colorful grove of mixed trees in the high desert below the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada.
As the Eastern Sierra aspen color season progressed during October, the colors (to speak generally) work their way down from the highest groves to trees in the high desert, where they may appear alongside cottonwood trees, which themselves produce color even later in the season. On this morning I had finished photographing my sunrise location, but I didn’t want to stop just yet. So I decided to stretch the photography time as far into the later morning hours as possible and to do a bit of exploring at the same time. And this brought me back to this familiar grove in the high desert... continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/10/23/high-desert-autumn-color/
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High Desert Autumn Color. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell. A colorful grove of mixed trees in the high desert below the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada. As the Eastern Sierra aspen color season progressed during October, the colors (to speak generally) work their way down from the highest groves to trees in the
Ah ha!
#MastSeeding
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These types of trees expel their seeds en masse every few years, and it usually only lasts a few weeks. The seed blizzard is more noticeable this year because there's been so little rain, an expert said.
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