Nice weekend just past. I spent most of Saturday out in the Woods along the Tree Tutorial Loop. The leaves are beautiful. The rich deep buttery yellow of the black hickory is my favorite. Hackberry and elm leaves are also yellow but mottled, withered and falling now. Kentucky coffee tree leaves are yellow and rich. Virginia creeper leaves are wine red. Chittamwood leaves are still full green and will probably remain so for another month or more. Pin oak leaves are still mostly green.. particularly on the young trees. Pecan leaves are yellow.. almost as rich as the black hickory but more mottled with fungi and more beginning to fall. Red bud leaves are mostly all down now. Walnut leaves are down too. Locust leaves are down. In the wider lower Woods green ash leaves are about 99% down. Cotton wood leaves are still there, mostly green; but now turning yellow. Abundant young Soapberry tree leaves turned a bleached out yellow gray and are now mostly fallen.
Sunday I walked more briefly around the Woods and spotted a doe with her yearling by the East Pond.
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