At 7 a.m., Canada geese are heading out to corn and soybean stubble fields in Brooklyn Park. Hundreds of ring-billed and Franklin's gulls follow chisel plow in Waseca area. Steam fog coming off lakes. 4 - Norway maple leaves falling. Red cedar trees have begun taking on the maroonish-brown look for winter.
Some small ponds have ice covers.
At Gustavus Adolphus College, the Boston ivy on various buildings is probably at its fall-color best and showing many tones of red. The last of the sunny-yellow leaves of the bittersweet vines are falling. Snowshoe hares in northern Minn. are changing from brown to their white winter coats. The silver and green leaves of the Russian olive are dropping. European larch trees showing mostly smoky-gold needles.