Last Day of Autumn?

My older daughter and I took a small trip today to the Minnesota Valley Wildlife Refuge. I had attended a conference near here this past week and realized we had not visited for quite a long time. On a Facebook page a person said this day smelled like snow.

The sky today definitely has the "blue" look of November. This view is from an overlook over wetlands for the Minnesota River. The river begins on the very western border of Minnesota where the border has a bit of a bulge to the west. It flows rather than a half circle going quite far south before it curves back north to join the Mississippi River about 4 miles upstream from where I live. The water that comes in from the Minnesota is what has caused the most recent floods in this area.

We did see a bit of bright color.

The museum has two very interesting banners. They are huge -- perhaps 100 feet wide by 30 feet high.

Here is a part of one. It looks like it is made from pixels and you are right.

Above are some of the "pixels" for this banner.

Here is the banner in another area:

And here is a part of the bird's leg:

We did a short walk outside. These weeds below are quite ready for wind or birds to carry the seeds about.

We have one day of October and then it's November, the dreary month in Minnesota. By December the weather is much colder but we get sunny, blue skies. The trick for November is to stay busy! With my schedule that's not a problem.