This was taken on an overcast day, and the leaves were obviously suffering from tar spot after a humid, hot summer, but I liked the rich color.
Pretty much the last to fall, the maples and ash trees are already bare.
This was taken on an overcast day, and the leaves were obviously suffering from tar spot after a humid, hot summer, but I liked the rich color.
Pretty much the last to fall, the maples and ash trees are already bare.
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Ah, those rich red oak leaves. How far back was this picture?
WordPress is doing its thing again: your photograph looks blurry on this page but after I click it the enlarged version looks normal.
It was this day three years ago (I think).
I adjusted the size (again) I’ll see if that helps.
It does look better on my computer screen now.
Oh good thanks
The last farewell in rich red colour!
Yes! Thank you, Peter. I was thinking of an old BBC show one of my grandmothers loved, “Last of the Summer Wine.”
These are really pretty. I wish the oak trees at the bottom of our block were like these but they don’t have nice colors, at all, whatever variety they are. When my oldest used to ride the bus, we’d stand under those oaks. The leaves would just gradually turn brown and stay on the tree, all winter long. The galls would periodically nearly fall on our heads, haha. The one nice thing about those trees it would drop lots of branches. every day, one year, I’d carry a fistful of branches and drop them in a pile in my yard, to make some habitat, for birds.
How often are you getting back to upstate New York to visit your parents, these days? is your sister’s research position (or was it a lab position? I can’t remember what you told me, exactly) in Pittsburgh going well, so far? maybe it wasn’t even Pittsburg. Some Pennsylvaina city, I though.
Hi Jason, yeah the huge oak next door to my parents house never turned colors that I remember I think it just turned brown. One time at a Renaissance faire, near Oswego, there was somebody selling blank books and oak gall ink, I guess what they used in the old days before they had ballpoints.
I haven’t been back to New York for quite a while but I’m headed there for Thanksgiving. My sister is enjoying her lab job , she switched to a different kind of research project that doesn’t involve animals well now it’s humans I mean, I’ll hear more about it at T-bird Day. She likes Pittsburgh a lot, the topography creates lots of little neighborhoods and she’s met a lot of nice people. Some folks who have a house a couple blocks from her apartment have been letting her grow stuff in their garden, because they got too old to use it, so she’s still getting (2nd crop) fresh peas if you can believe it.
Great picture of colourful autumn leaves.
Thank you, Pit, I wish the autumn leaves stayed around a bit longer.
Would be nice, wouldn’t it?
Those leaves are beautiful. The color of some wines.
Thanks Neil, I thought the same thing like Shiraz I guess, I keep seeing people order that.
The bits of green peeking through give this a real holiday feel. It would make a great, non-traditional Christmas card. Our oak leaves excel at dry and brown, but I’ve never seen any this colorful; I usually associate this kind of red with maple leaves. Lucky you, to have these!
Thank you, Linda. Most of the oaks here are brown, brown and brown. I’ll have to figure out which are the ones that turn red.
Nice, for an oak. Our neighbor’s oak has managed yellows and rusts, but nothing as red-faced as yours.
They don’t get the great colors of maples or sweet gums, but I still have a thing for oak trees. Maybe I’ll become a Druid one of these days
Beautiful bed of red oak leaves. But are they red oak leaves or red oak leaves?
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