Tuesday, October 27, 2009

More fall colors


A few days ago, I posted some pictures from the woods behind our office. Today, I have more.

First, on the top right, is a pretty yellow Sassafras tree. You can tell a Sassafras Tree because it has three types of leaves that look like a right-handed mitten, a left-handed mitten and a strange mitten for keeping the three middle fingers together! I'm told that my uncles used to make sassafras tea that my mother remembers drinking but I don't know how you do it.

The next tree is on the top left and is a pretty large Oak tree. I can't really tell if it's orange, burnt orange or brown. I just know it's pretty. I'll leave the color naming to my wife and daughter. They know more names for more colors than I can imagine. And they often have an adjective to describe the color. They'll say things like, "Oh, that's not blue is Midnight Blue!"

Finally, I have two individual Oak leaves. The one on the right is a solid color while the one on the left is an amazing mixture of colors. You can see how the coloring of the leaves follows the veins in reverse - they stay green longer near the veins where they still have nutrients. The new colors work their way in from the edges..

I've made the pictures especially small here so I could fit them all in on the short post. But, as usual, you can click on them to see them larger.

3 comments:

Cats or Cat or Dog or Dogs or Emma or M And M Emma said...

I love your pictures of red and the pink and the purple.
All your pictures daddya.
Love Emma Or Dogs Or Dog Or Cats Or Cat Or M&M.
Love Emma.

Emma or Princess Peach said...

I love your pictures of red and the pink and the purple.
All your pictures daddya.
Love Emma Or Dogs Or Dog Or Cats Or Cat Or M&M.
Love Emma.

Gloria said...

Very pretty leaves, magenta pink, would you say? Whatever colors you choose to call them, they are beautiful. Never had sassafras tea but I hear it's bitter, you'd think it would be sweet with a name like that, wouldn't you?