About Allyn's Lakeland Village

We all enjoy the colors of autumn leaves.

It seems so nice to color up the day before we know it winter is upon us.

Did you ever wonder how and why a fall leaf changes color? Why a maple leaf turns bright red? Where do the yellows and oranges come from? To answer those questions, we first have to understand what leaves are and what they do.

Leaves are food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose. Oxygen is a gas in the air that we need to breathe. Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy and as a building block for growing. The way plants turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar is called photosynthesis. That means "putting together with light." A chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen. Chlorophyll is what gives plants their green color.

As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter.

During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.

The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in the fall. In some trees, like maples, glucose is trapped in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn cause the leaves turn this glucose into a red color. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.

It is the combination of all these things that make the beautiful colors we enjoy in the fall.

The deep waters hide her colors and the sky simply melts away.

Whispering shimmering swirls of ancient magical gray.

Unfurling themselves as they wind in and again though black trees

Beneath the surface the fish are in mime of creation's lead.

As the sun's limited hours were only for this day borrowed.

Fall has come to Allyn - cloaking light's breath, unconcerned, & shadowed.

A bright bird calls and through the ghostly vapors land makes it's way

Dark and light meet up with the night and swallow the day away.

• Drain underground sprinkler systems.
  
• Have outdoor pools drained and professionally serviced.
  
• Drain exterior water pipes and any pipes that run through unheated areas (such as a garage, crawl space or unheated porch). If draining these pipes isn't possible, wrap them with foam insulation or heat tape.
  
• Cover exposed spigots with foam covers. Or, if cosmetics and ease of removal don't matter, wrap spigots in layers of newspaper, cover the newspaper with a plastic bag, and seal the whole affair with duct tape.
  
• Drain and store garden hoses. Leave one hose and nozzle somewhere that's easily accessible; you'll need it for gutter cleaning and car washing.

the Pacific Northwest is beautiful, October has definitely ushered in Autumn. The chilly
temperatures,
wind and rain leave us in no doubt that Summer is over. We've traded in our
warm-weather
for boots and rain coats, and we're building cozy fires to stay warm at home.
Change is in the air.

Taking our cue from Nature, and get some of those recipe's for drinks by the fire,`

```````if you have a good one send it to me, I am always up for new things to try!

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