I never tire of it. And yet I spend so much time before it really has arrived, waiting, taking photos of earliest colors, that when the peak comes, I just ho-hum a few more shots! They're still "in the camera."
The trees here -- and in our yard -- change color and drop their leaves at different times, as they do everywhere, and it will be December before all the deciduous trees are bare. In our yard, that will be our gigantic Chinese dawn redwood, which hasn't even turned orange yet. Our black maple never has much color, and it's dropping its leaves in a blizzard these days. The two American cherries have been bare for weeks. The Japanese maple is very, very slowly changing from green to purple to red. It's utterly gorgeous when it's fully red. I'm grateful for our big evergreens and our evergreen hollies. I would hate a totally bare and bleak winter.
Not tired at all but it's about over for us. last trees to color up are the oaks and they are almost done too. Bare trees all around here. Winter coming in next week though 70º today.
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It's too short to get tired of it. But I may have been overdoing it for others.
I never tire of it. And yet I spend so much time before it really has arrived, waiting, taking photos of earliest colors, that when the peak comes, I just ho-hum a few more shots! They're still "in the camera."
The trees here -- and in our yard -- change color and drop their leaves at different times, as they do everywhere, and it will be December before all the deciduous trees are bare. In our yard, that will be our gigantic Chinese dawn redwood, which hasn't even turned orange yet. Our black maple never has much color, and it's dropping its leaves in a blizzard these days. The two American cherries have been bare for weeks. The Japanese maple is very, very slowly changing from green to purple to red. It's utterly gorgeous when it's fully red. I'm grateful for our big evergreens and our evergreen hollies. I would hate a totally bare and bleak winter.
I never do, though it's slow to get going here this year.
Not tired at all but it's about over for us. last trees to color up are the oaks and they are almost done too. Bare trees all around here. Winter coming in next week though 70º today.
To paraphrase Sam Johnson: if you are tired of autumn, you are tired of life.
Now, to be tired of raking leaves, that's another matter. (Luckily, just leaving them lie is apparently better for the environment.)
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