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Color-‘Fall’ View

It Looks Like Autumn but Feels More Like Summer on Campus

By Maryland Today Staff

aerial view of Hornbake Plaza

A drone captures an aerial view of Hornbake Plaza ablaze in color.

Photo by Eric Kruszewski

Is it really mid-fall today?

Temperatures pushing 80 degrees aren’t the typical background to colorful turning leaves in the arboretum that is the University of Maryland campus. Although drought conditions are putting a damper on some greenery’s growth—sorry, grass-seed and shrub planters—we’ll take this last, sweet whisper of summer before the cold days start.

Oh, more proof it’s fall: the people wearing “I voted” stickers along with their T-shirts and shorts today.

Enjoy the autumn reds and golds in these scenes our photographers captured around, and above, UMD in recent weeks.
woodpecker on tree with gold leaves

A downy woodpecker perches in a tree on the Memorial Chapel field. (Photo by Dylan Singleton)
students walk past sundial with yellow leaves on trees

Framed by fall foliage, students walk past the sundial on McKeldin Mall on Oct. 24, another in a nearly month-long string of bright, dry days. (Photo by Riley N. Sims)
red leaves on tree on Fraternity Row

A rainbow of fall colors bursts on an oak tree on Fraternity Row. (Photo by Dylan Singleton)
squirrel eats near Testudo statue

A squirrel snacks on leftovers from the Homecoming Terp Carnival that became offerings to Testudo on McKeldin Mall. (Photo by Riley N. Sims)
Aerial view of Memorial Chapel in fall

Brilliantly hued trees extend from around Memorial Chapel and the new Union on Knox complex southeast to the horizon. (Photo by Eric Kruszewski)
M in iron gate with fall foliage in background

The M embedded in a wrought-iron fence overlooks a dazzle of color at South Campus Commons. (Photo by Dylan Singleton)
aerial view of Washington Quad in fall

A lone Terp traverses an autumnal panorama on Washington Quad. (Photo by Eric Kruszewski)
students sit at tables under tree with yellow leaves

Students enjoy a warm day as they study outside beneath golden leaves in Hornbake Plaza. (Photo by Dylan Singleton)
McKeldin Mall in fall

The sun descends early over McKeldin Mall, but students cling to the last warm beams. (Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle)

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