Fall

Almost overnight a couple weeks ago, fall hit the area. One day everything was green and the next it was yellow. And I do mean yellow. Very few trees turn other colors like red or orange because I have been told that those varieties don't survive the winters here. So everywhere we looked it was yellow or evergreen. As the days passed, the yellow only seemed to intensify. The newspaper said that the yellows are particularly vibrant this year because there was so much rain over the summer. The trees are now super healthy and happy and showing their colors to prove it. This picture is of a tree in our side yard (that is our house behind it) taken last week. I wish you could see the trunk of this tree up close because it is smooth, bronze in color...something I have never seen before...and puts out clusters of small black berries. I haven't had a chance to look up what kind of tree it is, but Dharma and Hannah, our neighbor's daughter, love to climb in it. They also crush the berries and add water and "paint" with the juice of the berries on rocks and paper. Yesterday the winds were upwards of 50 miles per hour here, so most of the trees are now bear. Winter is coming.