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Autumnal Thoughts........

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One story about how folks from Indiana acquired the Hoosier label is when Indiana residents in the late 1700s saw unknown new settlers approaching their remote settlements they would yell out 'Who's there?'. It became a tradition of addressing strangers and so common in the state that 'who's there' morphed into a slang nickname of 'Hoosier'...but that's just one story of many.

The 1833 Pittsburg Statesman article gave an alternate etymology, positing that the word sprang from surveyors mapping the state who encountered so many squatters on public land that they would call out “Who’s here?” as soon as they spotted cabins with smoke rising from them. The question echoed so frequently on the Indiana frontier that it was shortened and altered to “hooshere” and finally “hoosier.
 
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AmateisGal

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It is so beautiful right now!

A few photos from the tree across the street and the squirrels in the nearby lawn.
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WOW!!! Great photos!

I am soooo ready for some of that around here. Everything is still plenty green, and it's only been the last couple of mornings that it was cool enough to grab on a sweatshirt heading out the door in the mornings. Not cool enough to keep one on all day, but the mornings are enjoyable.
 

Old Mariner

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Here is the Maple, that I posted previously, now in the afternoon sun. I tend to admire these colors on trees, as I don't wear them (my skin tone has peach tones, so warm colors don't go well on me...tried it many times and never liked the result). I also love the deep maroon-burgundy colors that some trees get as well, and the vivid red of Cardinal Bushes (if I recalled the name right).

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