Good evening, Kibitzers! As November arrives and fall gets long in the tooth, I'll share a few pictures I took around home this weekend of the last of the fall color. I haven't regarded this as a very good year for fall foliage, at least around here, and I'm afraid it's just one more nice thing we can't have any more because we broke the climate. Temperatures have been all over the place, repeatedly, and the result has been that, rather than all the trees in the area turning color at a roughly similar time, they've been dropping their leaves at wildly different times, some of them without fanfare, seemingly going directly from green to brown. All season, there have been a lot of green trees coexisting with a lot of completely leafless trees. You can see from the hillside across the highway, shown above, that now there are many bare trees, some in full color, and even now a few greenish holdouts.
I guess the good side is, there is still color to be seen at this (formerly) late date, and non-native ornamentals like Japanese maples are so eager to please that they're almost garish. That's okay; we'll take it, before everything turns gray and brown for the winter.
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