The Red Brick Times

The carotenoids are coming! The carotenoids are coming!

Actually, they are always here, but we can't see them until autumn. See the Wayne National Forest Fall Foliage Report and learn that:

"With the advent of the fall season, slight color is beginning to show on the leaves of Wayne National Forest trees. It is the current weather of warm sunny days followed by cool, but not freezing, nights that will eventually bring the trees to their annual brilliance. The warm days allow lots of sugar to be produced in the leaf, but the cool nights and the general closing of the leaf’s veins prevent these sugars form moving out. Lots of sugar and lots of light spur the production of the brilliant anthocyanin pigments that give us the reds, purples and crimson colors. The yellow and gold colors come from carotenoids that are always present in leaves and that is why those colors are almost always the same from year to year. The warm fall in SE Ohio this year combined with last spring’s warm west months could bring us beautiful color this year."

Wayne National Forest is down state, Athens County area. Also at the same site are postings of festivals and events in the area, including:

"Sternwheel Riverfest – Pomeroy Amphitheatre, Pomeroy, Ohio – September 25 – September 27 – Call (740) 992-2239 for more information - Chili Cookoff and contests throughout the festival Sternwheel boats race, while a Victorian themed parade and queen contest takes place down Main Street."

Big wheel keeps on turning....




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