It's been a slow fall, it seems, and when I went out looking for brightly colored leaves yesterday, I didn't find all that many. One reason is that we've cut down all the aspen trees: they take over the yard and block the sun from our newly planted fruit trees and berry bushes ("newly" being in the last couple years). I did find one aspen that hasn't yet gotten pulled as the weed it is; its leaves (above) were mostly green, showing the lateness of the fall.
I went around and photographed some of the more colorful leaves.
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| Peach tree leaves. |
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| Same plant; closer view. |
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| Wild plant through rusted deer fencing. |
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| Orange lilac leaves, with a hint of new fencing behind. |
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| Leaf from our Surefire™ pie cherry tree. |
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| This same cherry was nearly killed by a deer last year. |
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| Leaf from our 4-way apple tree. |
Not sure which of the four strains that leaf is from. Most leaves on the tree are still green, and a few went directly to brown. Not sure if more will turn yellow, but we are getting a freeze tomorrow night, so...maybe.
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| The aronia berry leaves have all turned bright red! |
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| As have some leaves on the holly. |
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| Filbert leaves, only partly turned. |
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| Here's one of our Carolina allspice bushes next to an aspen stump. |
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| Carolina allspice leaves. |
And now, I'm back outside, under gray skies, to label plants and continue with roof tear-off cleanup. It's busy around here this fall!
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