Signs of Fall in Nature

mum with gray background
Nothing marks early fall more than my maroon chrysanthemum in bloom.

white_petals
I played detective to determine what kind of tree this is that grows in my neighbor’s front yard. I had photographed it last June when it had all those white floppy petals. Now it has these orange hanging balls.

cornus_kousa

I typed “white flowers petals orange balls” and “big petals white flowers tree” into Google. That second search brought me to a forum of plant identification, and someone suggested “cornus kousa.” The rest was easy; I put that phrase in Google images, and up came both my petals and my orange bally “fruit.”

To learn what is going on in nature in other neighborhoods, visit Rambling Woods:
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