New Year, New Fall Countdown

It’s a new year and we are already counting down the days (261!) until fall 2024 begins.

Until then, feast your eyes on some beautiful colors captured by Philip Reedy at the end of 2023. As he explained, “I keep thinking each report will be my last for the year, but it seems that every time I take a walk near my house, I still find fall colors hanging in there.”

On December 28, 2023 he found the ground covered in Velvet Ash leaves and a fair amount of them still on the trees.

While the Chinese Pistache trees have lost all of the gorgeous multi-colored leaves, the bright red berries are now on the trees and covering the ground. Plus, the Scarlett Firethorn bushes are just bursting with bright red berries, providing a post-Christmas palette of red and green.