One tree.

We have one maple tree in the front yard. That’s it, as far as fall color goes.

So when it turns in the autumn, I have to photograph it for all I’m worth.

Here it is early in the season, on October 28:

Part green, part indeterminate fall-y colors.

Two days later, on October 30, it was really cranking up the warm orange-y glow:

Now we’re talkin’!

Two more days, and the colors are shifting toward red. I took this picture from an angle that shows the background of all the normal North Texas trees, whose leaves either stay green or simply turn grayish-brown.

By November 1, the fall color “season” is half over.

Four days later. Finally turning a nice Aggie maroon in the fourth quarter of the season, the tree is dropping its leaves. (Nature observation, or football metaphor? I’ll just leave it there.)

November 5, and the leaves are. . .
well, leaving.

Two and a half weeks after the season starts, it’s over.

Blink, and you’ll miss the whole show.

I wonder which week winter will happen this year?

Thanks for reading,
Jan