Pretty fall trees

H.Waller
Date: 26 October, 2008
Time: 1420
Weather: Beautiful, warm, sunny, 70 degrees.
Location: Viewing during the walk from Kaneko to Sparks.

At home in Bozeman, MT fall is marked largely by the changing of the leaves. They put on a splendid show of all kinds of fall like shades, but this show starts about 3 weeks earlier than here in Salem. Today I was noticing all of the beautiful colors of fall and I also noticed that the way in which the leaves change here is different than at home as well. Here, the leaves change progressively on many trees. The transformation begins in the leaves on the ends of the branches first, and then travels slowly toward the center of the tree until the whole thing has newly fall-colored leaves. It is a beautiful sight to see a green tree with bright red ends that fade in towards the middle. At home I had never seen this before. The leaves all change at the same time on each tree. Another difference is that the changing lasts longer, and the trees don't empty themselves completely of their leaves as fast as the Bozeman trees do.
Photos courtesy of Google Images.