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What kind of Seed/ Nut is This?

I am showing my stupidity here…but haven’t lived in the northeast long enough to learn all my tree names. I found a bunch of these “nut shells” on my neighbor’s property when I went to feed their chickens while they were away. I forgot to ask what they were, so I’ll ask here.

Since Beech trees are abundant, I thought maybe a Beech nut although I don’t know what those are. Then I remembered back to when I used to hike to Mill Hill in my childhood and there was a lone chestnut tree up there and thought maybe this was a chestnut shell – I saw no sign of any chestnuts near these pods though.

I thought I’d get a photo of them just for fun. I suppose some animal had eaten what was once inside.

Foliage Update From New Hampshire

I was just updating my Squidoo lens on New England Foliage and realized that the season is almost over…Already! Wow, it seemed to fly by this year.

For 2 years now we have had gorgeous color and if not for the horrific ice storm that hit us last December, I bet the color would have been even better. Many of the trees have been broken or uprooted and my photos were taken of different views this year.

I took the dog up the road for a walk two nights ago and the sun was just going down over the hill. It was hitting the yellow leaves just right and looked like a spotlight – of course I didn’t have my camera!! And I knew it wouldn’t last long enough for me to run (I don’t run fast) home and grab it…so I just stood and enjoyed it.

My plan was to go back up the next night and capture a replay of that moment, but it rained and the wind blew…and today when I walked up the hill I realized that I wouldn’t get that moment back. Almost all the yellow leaves have been blown away. My next chance for that photo won’t be for another year.

Time passes quickly – and in my opinion, never so quickly as in the Fall.

I got my photos. Maybe not as many as I would have liked, and I may still get some good ones, but in my area the leaves are fading away by mid-month usually and today is the 9th.

If you are planning to visit the northeast to see the color, you’d better hurry.

*Check the link on my site which has an interactive foliage map which is updated by folks who live in the New England states.

New England Foliage ~ October 2009

I had a great day for taking photos on Monday and made my shots into postcards shown here.
The Heron and Birch tree pictures are from last Fall, but the others were taken this week.

I wouldn’t say that the color is at it’s peak yet in southwestern NH, but it is very close.

Unfortunately today will be rainy and a strong wind is moving in this afternoon, and as so often happens in Fall, just when the colors are becoming their brightest, the leaves are blown from the trees.

~ click here to see: *All my New England Postcards ~

Foliage Photos From New Hampshire

The color becomes brighter each day and since the rest of the week is forecast to be cold and yukky, I took the camera and got some recent foliage shots.