The Daily Bucket - October Yard Report

The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group.  It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or flowers.  All are worthy additions to the bucket.  Please let us know what is going on around you in a comment.  Include, as close as is comfortable for you, where you are located. Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the patterns that are quietly unwinding around us.

  Castro Valley, October 2016

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So here we go:

geraniums are mostly bloomed out pineapple sage is firing up again begonia under orange still gowing milkweed bloomed out and ready to travel greens and onions, about a month old oddball blackberry clusters going nowhere more pineapple sage, iirc bee balm, greens(new), strawbs and rhubarb in front of lemon chives, bloomed, seeded & needing weeding pink geranium and salvia mexican sage still at it salvia

We’ve been losing and harvesting apples for weeks, with plenty still on the tree.

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Now It's Your Turn

  What have you noted happening in your area or travels? As usual post your observations as well as their general location in the comments.    

Thank you.