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After an absurdly hot and painfully dry summer, October has bordered on Sorta Damp, and this rosebush, which hasn't produced so much as a brown bud in five months, has decided to go for broke. Taken 27 October 2011.

Neither this iris plant nor the rosebush produced a darn thing last year with rainfall slightly above average; with a drought in process, perhaps it's now or never. Taken 4/18/11.

A few others were hanging on after Thanksgiving; this is one of the more interesting of the bunch, and it's shot at an angle that goes right into my garage. Normally I'd crop it, but I liked the effect. Taken 27 November 2010.

Actually, it may not be *the* last, but it didn't appear until mid-October, and the growing season is about to grind to a halt. Taken 17 October 2010.

Nature disposes of dead tree limbs in its own unique fashion. Here's one in the next-to-last stage before gravity takes over completely. Shot in my front yard on 21 May 2010, a few days after a hailstorm ravaged the neighborhood.