Sunday, October 25, 2009

Red!


The cloudy skies set off the leaves' beautiful colors this afternoon. The yellows of the hickories, poplars and maples glowed like they had a lamp inside them, but the reds outshone them. The Red Maples are in full (red) leaf. The Sumacs are shorter but grow in mass along the pipeline and therefore make quite a show of orangy-red. Dogwoods turn a purply shade of red, to contrast with their shocking orange-red berries this time of year. Sassafras trees turn various colors depending on the light available where they grow. Some are a school-bus yellow (like the hickories), some are orange, and some, like the small tree from which I picked this leaf, are deep red.

Red, yellow, orange... whatever their color, the trees in the Piedmont of South Carolina are putting on a beautiful show right now, and I love it. Fall is my favorite time of year!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love this one - the colors are so rich. You're drawings are really wonderful.

Helen said...

Thanks, Laura!

Scott said...

I like the red :)

nancysbaldwin said...

Fall is the BEST time of the year! Beautiful picture of red leaves, my favorite.