We've been having a torrent of rain here for the past couple weeks. Much more than usual. the rain let up for a few hours the other day and I got as far as the front porch to see if I could find a few things to photo. Perhaps the most interesting is to see drops of water on the bare twigs.
Once the leaves start falling, the bushes in our front yard show a three dimensional chaos of limbs. With the addition of water drops, this confusion is filled with tiny, inverted images of the random scene.
One of 'evergreen' bushes isn't. The needles turn yellow, then brown and fall out. It looks dead until spring when a new growth appears. I really thought it was dead last winter, but it came back. I presume it will again.
Another bush really is evergreen and actually putting on new growth now. That's on the strange things about all these trees here. Some that you are sure are some flavor of conifer die back, others decide that winter is the season to start new growth. Yet others just stand there and appear to do nothing year round. Hard to keep track what's going on out here. These PNW trees and bushes are quite curious.
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