This is our first "Color" of the season. :)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/20011/IMG_6855.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1573506468)
And the low 20°'s tomorrow night will probably knock the leaves off. :-X
We've still got a little of the white color that fell a week ago. Not a normal thing for it to stick around this time of year. Low of 0 forecast tonight and then it warms up a bit again. Hopefully it lasts for a long while!
Stay warm down there! Cold is a relative thing.
Alan
Sure is pretty but I'm not familiar with it. What is it?
Sorry Roxie, I shoulda said that it was Crepe Myrtle. I trim back to the trunk each year so all of this is this year's growth.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/20011/IMG_6856.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1573508015)
There are three of them and they are my view from my chair with the Live Oaks in the background. The Red Maples have not turned yet but I'll bet this weekend's cold will give them a jump start.
I wonder if Myrtle is related to Suzette? ???
We got our first killing frost a couple of nights ago, woke up to everything covered in walnut and mulberry leaves, basically dumped them overnight. It actually looked quite odd as the leaflets were all still attached on the walnut, looked more like a wind storm than a frost had come through.
@Southside (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=24297) that's interesting about your walnut trees. You and I have pretty much the same weather and mine have been bare for well over a month. They're the last to leaf out and the first to drop. Something different going on right here. The pecan trees have barely lost a leaf, but that hard frost will change that for sure. Everything else here went straight from green to brown pretty much. The hickories were the only ones to show any real color and that didn't last more than a couple days. The dry weather really eliminated the fall show of colors.
Nice view out the window @Magicman (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=10011) Those look spectacular with the green backdrop.
Funny, my hickory has a little color right now, or at least did two days ago when I was in the woods, the poplar are bare, but the maple are still green.