the side of the highways in most of new england are covered with them. too cold for many to grow here but ive seen some.
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Hillsides are starting to show some color, along with some roadsides, but like BB said, I imagine it’s because of the dry summer we’ve had. Temps haven’t been below 45 here yet.
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Trees starting to drop early this year, certainly because of the summer drought. Temps haven’t been below 50.
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I’ve read many different reasons for leaf color tuning and leaf drop timing. Some say more sun goes through the available chlorophyll faster, shortening days are a trigger, and temperature is involved.
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We’ve seen the sun for maybe 50 minutes since about this time last week.
A pic my wife took yesterday afternoon while we were running around on the UTV
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Enjoying everyone’s photos.
Here is the latest of my pathetic fall ‘color’. This should be my Geneva Mirabelle with some yellow leaves, and apparently some disease?
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The only true native tree that exhibits a bit of color here is the water maple, both in spring with it’s red winged seeds, red new growth leaves before turning green, and then a bit of red/purple/brown in fall.
Sadly it quickly goes from a pleasing color to brown (second photo). Cloudy so the color doesn’t show as well.
In traveling I mentioned not really being in a place with good color on fall, but I have been in the Rockies in early fall and seen the aspen and cottonwood, though those both only show in yellow-gold.
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Kingdom Come State Park in southeast Kentucky, some individual trees are looking good. Give it another week or perhaps two…
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Colors getting there in Jackson County KY this weekend. Observed a crimson red dogwood tree in a fencerow near Rockcastle Co. line … probably 1300 or more feet elevation.
52 and cloudy.
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Scott and Wise counties in Southwest Virginia, around 3000ft elevation.
Forest road
Flag Rock, Norton VA
Bark Camp Lake
At Bark Camp Lake
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Was at Breaks Interstate Park during the summer. “Gorgeous” place.
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I’m no photographer and these pics don’t do my daily walk justice, but they’re the best I could do today. The last two are looking at a neighbor’s hillside and some of our shed/junk.
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Nice. But, frankly, it’s just about as pretty here…lot more reds.
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Some recent pics.
These were taken at my new job, at Morehead St University, just started a couple weeks ago. The lake is about a half mile walk from my office, very nice views. I went up there last week on my lunch break.
These were taken from our pasture. Still not peak colors yet, maybe next week.
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All of our bright red maples have been done for weeks. Most of what is showing color now are big tooth aspen and red/pin oaks.
edited to add…I just realized that typing “bright red maples” may imply Red Maple. We do have plenty of Red Maple, but my statement regarding “bright red maples” referred to Sugar Maple. I notice in town that many yard maples are quite beautiful right now. I assume many/most of those planted trees are Autumn Blaze maples.
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Our sugar (hard) maples are about at peak right now, super deep red colors. Oaks are still green-ish. Our colors are late by a couple weeks, but it may be because we haven’t had a freeze yet. But we might get one Sunday night.
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All the trees around here turn yellow. The cottonwoods and birches are the brightest. Larches are just starting to come on.
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