Sometimes a day makes a huge difference. Saturday afternoon it was in the eighties and tonight they predict it will be in the twenties. Another cold front is coming in and Wednesday they say the high will be in the thirties.
The winds are blowing the leaves off the trees now. A few of our oaks have some really dark reds. I don’t know why some are red and some merely turn a pale yellow on the way to brown They look like the same species to me. When I was a boy we had many oaks in our yard but only one had red leaves and it was the one by the driveway with the mistletoe. That tree died and so I always fear that the red leaves are a bad omen.
The cedar elms are a bright yellow. They really stand out in the woods. Maples don’t grow naturally here but a few people have planted them and they turn the brightest colors of all.
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This is a beautiful picture!
most of the color around here is imported trees. Our big maples which are natural, just turn brown and fall off. The alders hang on until the very end then dry up and blow off. We had snow the other day, and green leaves still on the trees!! Now the Eastern side of the statem where there are BIG temperature swings, and DRY, the leaves are really colorful. It might have something to do with extreme temp. drops. hmmmmmmmmmmm
Ok Bill, you have been appointed to find out what really causes leaves to turn different colors.
It was probably the mistletoe that killed the tree.