In this gallery of photos taken in mid-October 2007, you might be surprised to see day lilies and roses blooming next to fallen maple leaves, but that's what our unseasonably warm temperatures here in Michigan have done--mixed everything up!

With that in mind, I dedicate this gallery to the newly-announced Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."