In my last entry, I noted that his fall’s colors have not been as spectacular as other years, and blamed the deficit on the dtry spring we had.

Well, I was sort of right, and sort of wrong.

No, we only had a handful of truly spectacular trees . Our neighbors have a Mountain Ash that was a brilliant red and yellow this year – but it didn’t last long. No streets where you look down the block and see a half-dozen or so spectacular specimens.

But what we did have this year was a very long turning of the leaves. The picture to the right is our backyard Silver Maple. A beautiful (ans squirrel-favorite) tree, it really doesn’t have much autumn interest. The green leaves will turn a little yellow and then fall off.

This year is probably the most yellow it has ever been – and this has been trees up and down our (and others’) block(s). At the bottom of the photo on the right, trees on the block east of us can been seen popping over the houses, punctuations of yellow and some orange still hanging in there.

It’s been very pretty – and viburnum bushes this year have a saturated red color that has lasted in some cases for weeks.

So – it’s been a weird fall color-wise, but it turned out better than I initially gave it credit for.