Between Our Steps: The Consequences of a Hot, Dry Summer in Grey & Bruce

From wilted shrubs to early leaf drop, Grey-Bruce landscapes are struggling through a hot, dry season that has muted Ontario’s fall colours.

A late September shot from the top of Inglis Falls. Photo credit: Robert Mackey

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The first colour of fall this year was brown. Not just lawns in late August, but the leaves on so many shrubs wilted and then withered to a crisp brown. Birch and aspen leaves changed colour, not to yellow but brown.

There’s a joke that even in a drought,…