Hi Everybody!!
"The autumn leaves drift past my window" is the song of the day in my head for yesterday, some fall leaves began to fly from the trees. It will take about 2 months for all to come down. November came in right on time. This month the big birds (my buzzards) come home to roost in the tall pine trees for the winter. Baby Buzz is still here and seems to be watching for the others. Below you will see a link to your photostudy in my G+Album Gallery. Also, I have shared info from Wikipedia on November and the Tulip Poplar Tree. Enjoy!

TULIP POPLAR FALL LEAF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera Laken park
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Magnoliaceae
Genus:	Liriodendron
Species:	L. tulipifera
Binomial name
*Liriodendron tulipifera* L.

Range

Liriodendron tulipifera — known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tuliptree,tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddle-tree, and yellow poplar — is the Western Hemisphere representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron, and the tallest easternhardwood. It is native to eastern North America from Southern Ontario and Illinoiseastward across southern New England and south to central Florida and Louisiana. It can grow to more than 50 m (165 feet) in virgin cove forests of the Appalachian Mountains, often with no limbs until it reaches 25–30 m (80–100 feet) in height, making it a very valuable timber tree. It is fast-growing, without the common problems of weak woodstrength and short lifespan often seen in fast-growing species. April marks the start of the flowering period in the southern USA (except as noted below); trees at the northern limit of cultivation begin to flower in June. The flowers are pale green or yellow (rarely white), with an orange band on the tepals; they yield large quantities of nectar. The tulip tree is thestate tree of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Description[edit]

The tulip tree is one of the largest of the native trees of the eastern United States, known to reach the height of 190 feet (58 m), with a trunk 10 feet (3 m) in diameter; its ordinary height is 70 feet (21 m) to 100 feet (30 m). It prefers deep, rich, and rather moist soil; it is common, though not abundant, nor is it solitary. Its roots are fleshy. Growth is fairly rapid, and the typical form of its head is conical.^[1]

The bark is brown, and furrowed. The branchlets are smooth, and lustrous, initially reddish, maturing to dark gray, and finally brown. Aromatic and bitter. The wood is light yellow to brown, and the sapwood creamy white; light, soft, brittle, close, straight-grained. Sp. gr., 0.4230; weight of cu. ft., 26.36 lbs.

Winter buds: Dark red, covered with a bloom, obtuse; scales becoming conspicuous stipules for the unfolding leaf, and persistent until the leaf is fully grown. Flower-bud enclosed in a two-valved, caducous bract.

The alternate leaves are simple, pinnately veined, measuring five to six inches long and wide. They have four lobes, and are heart-shaped or truncate or slightly wedge-shaped at base, entire, and the apex cut across at a shallow angle, making the upper part of the leaf look square; midrib and primary veins prominent. They come out of the bud recurved by the bending down of the petiole near the middle bringing the apex of the folded leaf to the base of the bud, light green, when full grown are bright green, smooth and shining above, paler green beneath, with downy veins. In autumn they turn a clear, bright yellow. Petiole long, slender, angled.

Liriodendron tulipifera golden autumn leaves and seed cones

Flowers: May. Perfect, solitary, terminal, greenish yellow, borne on stout peduncles, an inch and a half to two inches long, cup-shaped, erect, conspicuous. The bud is enclosed in a sheath of two triangular bracts which fall as the blossom opens.
Calyx: Sepals three, imbricate in bud, reflexed or spreading, somewhat veined, early deciduous.
Corolla: Cup-shaped, petals six, two inches long, in two rows, imbricate, hypogynous, greenish yellow, marked toward the base with yellow. Somewhat fleshy in texture.
Stamens: Indefinite, imbricate in many ranks on the base of the receptacle; filaments thread-like, short; anthers extrorse, long, two-celled, adnate; cells opening longitudinally.
Pistils: Indefinite, imbricate on the long slender receptacle. Ovary one-celled; style acuminate, flattened; stigma short, one-sided, recurved; ovules two.
Fruit: Narrow light brown cone, formed by many samara-like carpels which fall, leaving the axis persistent all winter. September, October.^[1]

Liriodendron tulipifera "tulip" flower

Liriodendron tulipifera, large gray-green flower bud with yellow bract

Liriodendron tulipifera seeds

A description from Our native trees and how to identify them by Harriet Louise Keeler:^[1]

The leaves are of unusual shape and develop in a most peculiar and characteristic manner. The leaf-buds are composed of scales as is usual, and these scales grow with the growing shoot. In this respect the buds do not differ from those of many other trees, but what is peculiar is that each pair of scales develops so as to form an oval envelope which contains the young leaf and protects it against changing temperatures until it is strong enough to sustain them without injury. When it has reached that stage the bracts separate, the tiny leaf comes out carefully folded along the line of the midrib, opens as it matures, and until it becomes full grown the bracts do duty as stipules, becoming an inch or more in length before they fall. The leaf is unique in shape, its apex is cut off at the end in a way peculiarly its own, the petioles are long, angled, and so poised that the leaves flutter independently, and their glossy surfaces so catch and toss the light that the effect of the foliage as a whole is much brighter than it otherwise would be.

The flowers are large, brilliant, and on detached trees numerous. Their color is greenish yellow with dashes of red and orange, and their resemblance to a tulip very marked. They do not droop from the spray but sit erect. The fruit is a cone two to three inches long, made of a great number of thin narrow scales attached to a common axis. These scales are each a carpel surrounded by a thin membranous ring. Each cone contains sixty or seventy of these scales, of which only a few are productive. These fruit cones remain on the tree in varied states of dilapidation throughout the winter.

Tulip tree, unfolding leaves

Distribution[edit]

One of the largest and most valuable hardwoods of eastern North America, it is native from southern New England and New York westward to southern Michigan, and south to Louisiana and northern Florida.^[2] It is found sparingly in New England, it is abundant on the southern shore of Lake Erie and westward to Illinois. It extends south to north Florida, and is rare west of the Mississippi River, but is found occasionally for ornamentals. Its finest development is in the Southern Appalachian mountains, where trees may exceed 170 feet in height.

Ecology[edit]

Liriodendron columnar trunk in streambank woods, North Carolina

Liriodendron tulipifera is generally considered to be a shade-intolerant species that is most commonly associated with the first century of forest succession. In Appalachian forests, it is a dominant species during the 50–150 years of succession, but is absent or rare in stands of trees 500 years or older. On mesic, fertile soils, it often forms pure or nearly pure stands. It can and does persist in older forests when there is sufficient disturbance to generate large enough gaps for regeneration.^[3] Individual trees have been known to live for up to around 500 years.^[4]

All young tulip trees and most mature specimens are intolerant of prolonged inundation; however, a coastal plain swamp ecotype in the southeastern United States is relativelyflood-tolerant.^[5] This ecotype is recognized by its blunt-lobed leaves, which may have a red tint. Liriodendron tulipifera produces a large amount of seed, which is dispersed by wind. The seeds typically travel a distance equal to 4-5 times the height of the tree, and remain viable for 4–7 years. The seeds are not one of the most important food sources for wildlife, but they are eaten by a number of birds and mammals.^[6]

Vines, especially wild grapevines, are known to be extremely damaging to young trees of this species. Vines are damaging both due to blocking out solar radiation, and increasing weight on limbs which can lead to bending of the trunk and/or breaking of limbs.^[6]

Taxonomy and naming[edit]

Originally described by Linnaeus, Liriodendron tulipifera is one of two species in the genus Liriodendron in the magnolia family. The name Liriodendron is Greek for "lily tree".^[7] It is also called the tuliptree Magnolia, or sometimes, by the lumber industry, as the tulip poplar or yellow poplar. However, it is not closely related to true lilies, tulips orpoplars.

The tulip tree has impressed itself upon popular attention in many ways, and consequently has many common names. In areas near the Mississippi River it is called a poplar largely because of the fluttering habits of its leaves, in which it resembles trees of that genus. The color of its wood gives it the name Whitewood. Native Americans so habitually made their dugout canoes of its trunk that the early settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains called it Canoewood. It is sometimes called "fiddle tree," because its peculiar leaves, with their arched bases and in-cut sides, suggest the violin shape.^[8]The external resemblance of its flowers to tulips named it the Tulip-tree.^[1] In their internal structure, however, they are quite different. Instead of the triple arrangements of stamens and pistil parts, they have indefinite numbers arranged in spirals.^[9]

DO YOU SEE THE SCENE STEALER IN THIS SHOT?

YES, IT IS BABY BUZZ!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November

November

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

November

November (

ⁱ/noʊˈvɛmbər/ noh-vem-bər) is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian andGregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning "nine") when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. November is a month ofspring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.

November starts on the same day of the week as February in common years and March every year. November ends on the same day of the week as August every year. November starts on the same day of the week as June of the previous year in common years and September and December of the previous year in leap years. November ends on the same day of the week as March and June of the previous year in common years and September of the previous year in leap years.

Events in November[edit]

November, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

Thanksgiving is celebrated in November

All Saints' Day (formerly All Hallows Day), a Christian holy day, is celebrated onNovember 1. The day before, Halloween, is therefore "All Hallows Eve". In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday (Alla helgons dag, not to be confused with Allhelgonadagencelebrated on November 1) takes place on the first Saturday of November (eventually October 31 if a Saturday). The 2011 Swedish All saints day did take place on November 5.
1 November – Day of the leaders of the Bulgarian national revival
In Ireland, November 1 is regarded as the first day of Winter.
November 1 is called November Day (Lá Samhna) in Celtic tradition and is thus named in the Irish Calendar, where the month is called Mí na Samhna.
In the Roman Catholic calendar, November 2 is All Souls Day. It is known in Mexicoas el Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), and the whole month of November is especially dedicated to praying for the dead
Britain and New Zealand celebrate Guy Fawkes Night, the anniversary of the failedGunpowder Plot, on November 5.
In Indonesia, November 10 is known as National Heroes Day.
November 10 is the birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
Independence Day in Poland on November 11.
Saint Maartens Day (Sint maarten) in the Netherlands (Dutch version of Halloween which gets celebrated with home-made lanterns and singing songs for candy)
Remembrance Day is celebrated on November 11 in the Commonwealth of Nationsand various European countries (including France and Belgium) to commemorateWorld War I and other wars. It is known as Veterans Day in the United States.
In India, Children's Day is celebrated on November 14, the birthdate of first Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
World Diabetes Day is celebrated on November 14.
The Leonids meteor shower reaches its peak around November 17.
National Prematurity Awareness day is November 17.^[1]
Latvian Independence day November 18.
Discovery to the Eastern World of Puerto Rico by Christopher Columbus on November 19, 1493.
International Men's Day is commemorated on the 19 November.
Día de la Revolución, or Revolution Day, is celebrated in Mexico on November 20.
Transgender Day of Remembrance has occurred on November 20 each year in the United States since 1999.
National Adoption Day – November 21
Independence Day in Lebanon on November 22.
Rudolf Maister day in Slovenia on November 23
On 24 November each year, Lachit Divas is celebrated statewide in Assam, India, to commemorate the heroism of the great general Lachit Borphukan and the victory of the Assamese army over the Mughal army at the battle of Saraighat in 1671.
Suriname celebrates its Independence Day on November 25.
Albanian independence day is on November 28.
Scotland celebrates St Andrews Day, its official national day, on 30 November. Since 2006 it has been an official bank holiday.
Argentina celebrates the Day of National Sovereignty on 20 November, to conmemorate the Vuelta de Obligado battle. It has been declared an official national holiday in 2010
The United States and Puerto Rico observe Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November.
For Western Christians, Advent usually begins on a Sunday during the last week of November (the Sunday between November 27 and December 3).

November symbols[edit]

Chrysanthemum

November's birthstones are the topaz (particularly, yellow) which symbolizes friendship and the citrine.
Its birth flower is the chrysanthemum.^[6]
The Zodiac signs for November are Scorpio (until November 21) and Sagittarius(November 22 onwards)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Vulture

Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus brasiliensis in Panama
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Incertae sedis (disputed)
Family:	Cathartidae
Genus:	Coragyps Le Maout, 1853
Species:	C. atratus

BABY BUZZ OF RAINBOW CREEK

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https://plus.google.com/photos/117645114459863049265/albums/5941680465688933697

...this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek. See You next time! Wishing You All (Y'all) sweet dreams and a warm, cozy place to sleep as we approach winter.
Maybe everybody is not warm.
Help Them.
Love blooms in your heart when You begin to care for others.