NATURE NOTICINGS

Tiny accounts of what I’m noticing outside right now.

October 30, 2025

The autumn color has been SPECTACULAR this year!  I love each season for its own reasons, and along with many other folks, I believe Autumn around here is extra special.  In addition to the astounding beauty, the naturalist in me appreciates that I notice the tree leaves as individuals in a different way as they change color than I do when they’re in summertime’s concert of greens.  One such leaf stood out to me last week on a walk.  I noticed how HUGE they were, on the ground and yellow, underneath a tree I’m not sure I’d paid attention to before. 

I could’ve used my phone to identify it but I have been having fun researching and referencing, including cracking open the always rabbit-hole of a book, Botany in a Day.  I have ideas about what it is.  Do you? :-) 

The first one I noticed, and then one I found the day I took the photo, with my hand for size reference.