About a week ago, our sugar maple was getting close to its peak color, so I snapped a photo. On Friday, when you stood beneath it you were bathed in a golden glow because all of the interior leaves had turned as well. Yesterday, half of those leaves landed in the yard, and the ground glowed golden. Today was cloudy, windy and quite a bit colder, and the tree is beginning to show its branches. I imagine that by Tuesday, when the tree trimming guys arrive, only about 5% of the leaves will remain on the tree, making it an easier job for them. Of course, then it will be time to get the leaves raked! Norm has been sweeping the driveway and raking paths for Ava to use in the yard, but it still looks like the leaves are ankle deep. I wonder how much they all would weigh before they start to dry out?
Speaking of drying out, we are getting a tad dry in this neck of the woods. Several days last week it was windy and there was a Fire Danger warning posted. We were supposed to get a nice rain this weekend; then the forecast backed off to showers; last night they said we might get 1/10 of an inch, or "10 points" as Mom Linville used to say. I'm not sure we got anything except a damp spot on the driveway. Today as I drove to and fro for our church Bazaar, it seemed to me that all of the late coloring trees were more intensely red, even almost purple, than I remember. Nature saved the best of the show for the last act, or maybe even the encore. At any rate, our Indian Summer seems to be over and it feels and looks like November now. Time to think about baking breads and looking for sweet potato casserole recipes, etc. At least I could find cans of pumpkin in the stores this year!
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