Turn over for fall

Angie Hong
Guest Columnist
To everything, there is a season. Fall bursts in with a flash of beauty, as brilliant leaves in red and gold tumble to the ground. The local orchards and farms overflow with visitors coming to celebrate the harvest and frolic beneath the apple trees. Sometime between the Halloween costumes and the Thanksgiving turkey, wind blows the last of the leaves to the ground and we look up one day, surprised, and see bare branches against a gray sky and only brown leaves at our feet.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Though our environment is constantly changing throughout the year, the changes are most noticeable and happen more rapidly during the spring and fall. We see leaves changing color on trees and geese flying overhead as they migrate south for the winter. Within our lakes, change is happening as well. During the fall and spring, lakes go through a process known as “turning over.” When

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