Foggy October mornings

The weather is eerily warm and wet these days. Yesterday we had rain in the morning, sun in the afternoon, a brief thunderstorm at 5 p.m. with an impressive downpour, and then, unless I was dreaming, rain most of the night. We had a roofing contractor over and the rain chased us inside as we were outdoors trying to show him the chimney-flashing, downspout, and rain-gutter issue we are having. now that the rains have started up for the winter. I assume it will stay rainy until spring. Or I hope, I should say.

I took these photos across the street in our Blois neighbors' yard as Tasha and I were out walking one morning earlier this week. These neighbors have a big plot of land that slopes steeply down to a ravine with a stream at the bottom. Altogether, I think they have five acres, half lawn and half woods.

The ground was really wet because of heavy rains for three days. The wet ground plus warm air temperatures resulted in thick layer of ground fog.

Here's what the catalpa tree looked like a few days earlier. The heavy rains and accompanying winds have stripped a lot of leaves off the trees around here. The temperature this morning at 6 a.m. is 61ºF. A year ago on this date, our low temperature was 30ºF.