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The burning bush plants along west Kellogg, photographed Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, are usually fire red this time of year. The heat and lack of rainfall has turned the plants brown.

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Smaller than normal pumpkins have been the norm at the Applejack Pumpkin Patch near Augusta Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. The pumpkin crop in Kansas has suffered from the heat and lack of rain, area growers say.

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Third-grader Megan Cushenbery, center, tries to sweep insects into her net while bug hunting with her Mclean Science/tech Magnet Elementary classmates at Chisholm Creek Park Friday, Sept. 30, 2011.

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Samara Langly, 5, chooses her pumpkin at the Applejack Pumpkin Patch near Augusta Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. The pumpkin crop in Kansas has suffered from the heat and lack of rain, area growers say.

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Trees are beginning to turn colors like this one on east Douglas in College Hill Friday, photographed Sept. 30, 2011.

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School children run through the Applejack Pumpkin Patch near Augusta Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. The pumpkin crop in Kansas has suffered from the heat and lack of rain, area growers say.

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