The trees to the north and east of the house are nearly bare (thank goodness - I've mowed leaves 4-8 times plus done some leaf blowing into the tree line 2-3 times already). I took care of all the leaves on Tuesday, and Wednesday you couldn't tell it. Oh well, it is almost over.
Anyway, the trees on the southerly side of the house are the stars now. All of these are close to the drainage ditch, so did not suffer from the last 3 months of dryness we've had.
October Glory Maple with burning bush beside it. Interestingly, the maple should be more red, but this year it decided to be different. The second pic is a close up of the maple's leaves.
October Glory Maple in the foreground with a couple of wild maples behind and to the side.
This maple was shining gold in the sunlight
The Lace Leaf Japanese maple is burgundy color during summer, but it was on fire in the sunlight
Interestingly, the Thanksgiving Cactus threw an early white bloom. There are no other buds and when this starts blooming in a month or so, the flowers will be salmon colored. This cactus started throwing one white bloom just a couple of years ago, but I don't recall it ever having done that out of sync with the rest of the blooms.
That was all during the week, then I went to Concord this weekend and between the Dick's Sporting Goods and Petsmart there were a row of stunning maples. Pictures are straight from my phone with no manipulation (and I don't use filters). The closer up one, I was nearly under the tree. Taken at 9:35am, so the sun was still fairly low in the sky, but strong.
The season is almost over and then we'll be wishing for snow to relieve the brown of dead lawns and bare trees.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Thanks for adding beauty to our day. We thought of you a lot (more than usual) today.
We could use some of your color
Posted by: Cop Car | October 27, 2024 at 05:52 PM