After walking in Centennial woods the other day I did not notice much change in the forest. The temperature over the past month has slowly been dropping which in turn has made the forest ground more muddy. While looking at the trees I only noticed slight flowering on a few maple trees. When looking at my Northern Red Oak I did not see any change in flowering.
As you can see above the terminal bud on the Northern Red Oak still shows no signs of flowering. I expect in the next few weeks for this to change as the temperature continues to rise. After I took my pictures of my findings I uploaded a post to Inaturalist and included notes about the flowering not present.
