Autumn - blink and you'll miss it
All week I've been meaning to get out and take some pics of some of the beautiful autumn colors in my neighborhood. Just in the last week some of the trees really turned spectacular. It seemed later this year, but it might just be me because I love fall so much and it takes so long for the weather to cool into sweater and long sleeves weather here.
Anyway, I noticed on the way to the gym tonight that many of the trees that looked so spectacular just two days ago have already started dropping their leaves. We've had temps in the 70s until yesterday, and I'm sure the sudden lowering of the temps to a seasonal normal helped to accelerate the drop.
Last October I was at my sister's house in Nevada, in the high desert (about 4.000 ft above sea level) over a weekend when the temps suddnely dropped into freezing one night. I spent some time the next morning watching in fascination as the fig tree in their front yard dropped every single bright yellow leaf within about two hours. By noon it was bare.
It wasn't quite that drastic here, but it might just as well have been. It got colder last night, a little breeze sprung up, and the leaves have started to drop.
There are still some trees that look pretty fabulous, and there will still be some color through the beginning of December, but I feel like I've already missed my fifteen minutes of fall.
Anyway, I noticed on the way to the gym tonight that many of the trees that looked so spectacular just two days ago have already started dropping their leaves. We've had temps in the 70s until yesterday, and I'm sure the sudden lowering of the temps to a seasonal normal helped to accelerate the drop.
Last October I was at my sister's house in Nevada, in the high desert (about 4.000 ft above sea level) over a weekend when the temps suddnely dropped into freezing one night. I spent some time the next morning watching in fascination as the fig tree in their front yard dropped every single bright yellow leaf within about two hours. By noon it was bare.
It wasn't quite that drastic here, but it might just as well have been. It got colder last night, a little breeze sprung up, and the leaves have started to drop.
There are still some trees that look pretty fabulous, and there will still be some color through the beginning of December, but I feel like I've already missed my fifteen minutes of fall.