[horselover]

It's that time of year again.

Hope it's a nice day for you.

It's quite warm here and will be a nice quiet day for me.

[Lyndsey]

Thanks. The colours out here are tremendous, as usual, but we've had a problem with tar spot on the maple leaves. I think it's great that my neighborhood mobilized residents to collect spotted leaves as a means of preventing the spread of this plant disease.

[horselover]

Trees have been plagued with disease this year, I've seen a lot of it in my daily work.

Some of them have really bad bugs in them causing them so much damage.

I know the cicadas haven't been any help this year, there's been an overwhelming spotting of them for me every day at work when it was warm. They came out of their burrows in the ground and stuck themselves to trees and molted.

I caught one when I was working one day after seeing a shell on a tree. Looked it up that night online and found out that it was a cicada.

While they're not usually dangerous, the mother splits open a tree twig to lay the eggs and that can damage a tree.

But I really noticed the color today when I was out driving my husband to work.