{"id":183,"date":"2016-10-23T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=183"},"modified":"2021-09-25T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T04:49:07","slug":"fall-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Fall Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00a0is not to the Northwest that people flock, for scenes of brilliant Autumn color. Hardwoods colonized the continent starting in the East, and were still scarce in\u00a0Puget Sound by the time the Old Settlers arrived. At\u00a0its start, Seattle was unrelievedly green, year-round.<\/p>\n

Deciduous trees were\u00a0imported, mostly for landscaping. \u00a0Absolved of the requirement to provide fuel or timber, they were free to be decorative. \u00a0They have a lot more flair for shade than our native Douglas Fir and Western Red Cedar.<\/p>\n

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An out-of-the-way plaza in Seattle Center<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dallas\"<\/a>Our big windstorm this October happened before most trees were ready\u00a0to give up their leaves, so we have had a\u00a0few additional fine days to enjoy their colors. Here’s a picture of Alex pedaling along Dallas Avenue, our shortcut through the South Park neighborhood. This route skips some of the landmarks on the recommended bike trail, but it provides a chance to stop at Duwamish Waterway Park.<\/p>\n

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\"fullmoon\"<\/a>Big projects sometimes call for big trees. Thirty-fifth Avenue, in Lake City, for example, is lined for half a mile with Raywood Ash trees, like the one that we planted at our old house on Queen Anne Hill. \u00a0At the other end of the scale are Japanese Maples, possibly no larger than shrubs, in every shape and color of leaf.\u00a0 On the authority of our Landscape committee I believe that the variety seen here, in our current rooftop garden, is called “Shishigashira.”<\/p>\n

\"larch\"<\/a>Finally, as if to contradict what we said earlier, there are some conifers bred in such hostile climes that they, too, have learned to shed their leaves for winter. \u00a0These conical yellow trees are larches, caught in downtown’s wonderful\u00a0Freeway Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00a0is not to the Northwest that people flock, for scenes of brilliant Autumn color. Hardwoods colonized the continent starting in the East, and were still scarce in\u00a0Puget Sound by the time the Old Settlers arrived. At\u00a0its start, Seattle was unrelievedly green, year-round. Deciduous trees were\u00a0imported, mostly for landscaping. \u00a0Absolved of the requirement to provide fuel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}