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leaves are turned to a dull autumnal color & these bushes have duller berries - yellowish.
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[[underline]] Aug. 2[[overwritten]] 4 [[/overwritten]]5  [[/underlined]]
- The hazel is in fruit now.  Its cone is fringed (!) & sticky - gummy, perhaps [[vsu?]]ious to keep the nut warm as it has no hard outer shell. The pretty cones are saffron & pinkish.
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A patch of ground juniper has the blue bloom & when the low branches are raised blue berries come to light (thick)

[[underline]] Sept. 9 [[/underline]] - For some time the pine [[underlined]] bracts [[/underlined]] have been falling - brown cases that unfold the needles at the base.  My platform has been strewn with them mornings.
[[underline]] Sept. 19 [[/underline]] - The trees are turning so fast now we sit on the piazza of the cabin with field glasses on the mts. & the foothills.  The mt. sides which with the naked eyes are glowing, with the glass are seen to have burst into flames.  The lake border is just in transition - each morning there are more tongues of flame. between the pines, while the beauty of the reflected red trees increases.

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09-27-14-BW a garbled spelling of viscous...no matter how I look at it, it just ain't spelt rite. :-)