For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 16, 2014

Hey…she has it right ..remember it’s kindergarten

True. They should be red, orange, yellow, and amber..My favorites are yellow with red veins, and orange or red with yellow veins..After drying, very cool iron between wax paper helps preserve the colors, but I still find they lose a lot of fire.

Great time to look these up and learn the different shapes of leaves on the neighborhood trees. She can learn what a maple leaf looks like.

This kind of maple leaf?

@Pelican47: In Azerbaijan the Fall leaves are pink.

Here in western Ky. at my place we have ash, hickory, maple, pear, red oak, white oak, willow, birch, chestnut, cedar, and pine.

I dearly miss the Dutch Elms in my neck of the woods.

Lizzie’s got a good start there. Now if Ellie can identify the leaves, she and Lizzie will be able to name the trees.MY wife, a master gardener of great skill, could never get me to recognize one from another, try as much as I could.

Classic.

Nabuquduriuzhur: In Vancouver, vine maples start changing in August. Just when you not only can go to the beach, but actually in the water, they tell you winter is coming. More depressing than nine months of drizzle.

Lynn’s Notes:

My dad made us a leaf press and we used it a lot. After we left home, my mom continued to use it for the 4-leaf clovers she found. She would place the dried leaves between two sheets of sticky acetate and laminate them; then she’d put them into cards and letters — sending a bit of luck along with her regards. To this day, I have a box of her 4-leaf clovers. They are too precious now to send.

Duck, thank you for the link to Lynn’s interview in yesterday’s comments. I had heard some of this stuff vaguely, some directly from your comments. It is good to see exactly what is the truth behind it all.It interesting to read her comments in the past few years in light of that interview. Her “public” attitude is very different.

In high school. we had to do a project like that for Biology….that was one I’d rather “leaf” alone.

I can recognize the main ones (not sub species or such). Even with birds, I’m sometimes mistaken.