Early Fall Colors in the Ozarks
Fall Colors come in many shades - how early do you watch for the Fall Foliage Colors changes?
I tend to appreciated the early colors of fall nearly as much as later when they may be more brilliant. How about you? I thought I would attempt to document that this year in our housing development. We have pines, sumac, cottonwood, oaks, maples and a variety of flowers and other colorful plants.
Most years, we end up with magnificent colors, as many state do. However, in some years, the mix of temperature and rainfall make the colors appear much less spectacular. Which will this year be?
The cottonwood in this introductory image is just beginning to show some yellow among the green leaves - along with the white bark.
The images in this lens were each taken by me on the first day of fall, the autumnal equinox, in our southern Missouri Ozarks housing development.
Fall Colors on Amazon
Do you watch for the Fall Colors?
Do you watch for the Fall Colors?
Wild Roses and Pumpkin - Fall is arriving
Huge Red Maple Tree
We have several Red Maple trees in our housing development, but this one is the largest. I have been fascinated to notice that the red is starting at the top - see the photo.
Have you notice this in your red maple trees?
Oak Tree - fall colors or the drought?
We are still over ten inches short on rainfall for this full year, as I write this.
I have to ask, on this Oak Tree, is the color from Fall color change or is it from the drought - or even disease? I'm a bit concerned.