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August’s Colorful “Fashion” and Simple Living

The following article is reposted with permission from La Vista Ecological Learning Center: Nature’s fashion turns to berries in August. Sumac fruits ripen to crimson. Wild black cherries ripen, starting out red before turning black-purple. Grey dogwoods’ bluish-white berries mellow through October. Wild grapes and elderberries’ purple coloring attract wildlife as they mature. Year after…