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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 2019 • B1
A SEASON
OF CHANGES
Fall is a favorite season for many on the North Coast
By RON BALDWIN
F
all is a sneaky character. It pounces. Just as we Northwestern-
ers get used to summer with shorts, tank tops and fl ip-fl ops,
that morning comes along when you walk out your door and
feel the sudden change in season, at which point you dash to the
house for a jacket or sweater.
Other signs that fall is here are football practices, mountains of
freshly cleaned and painted crab pots in every port, clammers polish-
ing up the old clam gun and the return of dueling lawnmowers in clouds of post-dor-
mancy lawn grass.
Fall colors
Our western fall color scheme, while scenic and golden with big leaf maple accented
by vine maple and choke cherry, is no match for the great hardwood forests of the east
— a photographer’s playground that looks for all the world like it’s on fi re, contrasted
See Fall, Page B2
A patch of
sunfl owers
grace the
bank of a
farm near
Skamokawa,
Washington.
Many plants
save their
infl orescence
for fall and
burst through
in short order
to splash the
fi elds with
color.
A veil of fog blankets Astoria in its misty grip on a crisp fall morning.
Photos by Ron Baldwin