You know it's getting close to Fall in your area when..

[ebinmaine 67,275]

2 hours ago, AMC RULES said:

You find these suckers start falling out of the sky. 

 

Don't think we have those here Craig. What might that be?

[ebinmaine 67,275]

2 hours ago, AMC RULES said:

You find these suckers start falling out of the sky. 

 

I don't think we have those here Craig. What might that be?

 

 

[AMC RULES 37,127]

Search Cicada bug Eric..

[Razorback 1,035]

24 minutes ago, AMC RULES said:

Search Cicada bug Eric..

They sit in the trees during the hot summer months and buzz..... a lot of people mistakenly call them locusts, but they are nothing like a locust. They don’t harm anything that I know of...... they are just really ugly!

[Razorback 1,035]

And here is the only thing that they need to worry about, that I know of......

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

[ebinmaine 67,275]

38 minutes ago, AMC RULES said:

Search Cicada bug Eric..

 

10 minutes ago, Razorback said:

 

 

13 minutes ago, Razorback said:

They sit in the trees during the hot summer months and buzz..... a lot of people mistakenly call them locusts, but they are nothing like a locust. They don’t harm anything that I know of...... they are just really ugly!

 

Yep yep yep. We do have those here. It was the buzzing that gave it away.

 

As a matter of fact, that's one of my favorite noises.

 

I can't say I've ever seen one though.... Until just the other day.

They aren't actually all that common in my area. I might have between 3 and 5 in my yard at any given time on a busy afternoon.

 

[Burnerman 758]

I just love the cooler temps! Getting the leaf cleanup stuff ready and the plow and snowblower all ready. 

[Burnerman 758]

 When the mornings start looking like this and you got the plow on your tractor and your lawn sweeper ready fall is coming   

[Stormin 9,981]

 It is now officially autumn/fall over here. Leaves are starting to drop though not by much yet, up in the north. Also it's raining and has been all day as if the ground is not wet enough.

[ebinmaine 67,275]

1 hour ago, Stormin said:

Leaves are starting to drop though not by much yet

Yepp... Saw a few here a few days ago.

 

Here's a tree that is starting to show yellow at the top. Beech tree.

 

 

[Stormin 9,981]

 BTW.  Just had our second power cut in two weeks. They're early. It's not even winter yet.

[ebinmaine 67,275]

3 minutes ago, Stormin said:

 BTW.  Just had our second power cut in two weeks. They're early. It's not even winter yet.

A commonplace event in winter?

 

[Stormin 9,981]

2 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

A commonplace event in winter?

 

 

Getting that way. Pleased we're not all electric.

[ebinmaine 67,275]

1 minute ago, Stormin said:

 

Getting that way. Pleased we're not all electric.

Maine is the most heavily forested state in the nation and we get some nasty storms.

Also we here are on a small mountainside and, rural.

We lose power 1/2 dozen times a year or so. Usually only a few hours. Sometimes a few days.

 

We have 3 different ways to heat the building and/or food and we are outdoor people at heart so we manage better than most.

We also don't have any connection to media other than the phones so loss of electricity isn't a TV/internet disaster.