Fall Color

As I mentioned in an earlier post, most of the fall color we get in New Mexico is yellow.  Here's a lovely leaf that landed in my front yard.

When I bought my house, I decided to enliven things by planting several red leaf plum (fruit-less) trees.  Their leaves don't change colors.  I'm always amused when they drop off the trees.  Initially they don't seem to do it one or two or three leaves at a time.  Instead, it seems they have all their leaves one day and the next - 50% of them are on the ground.  The rest then do the one or two at a time.

So far we've had mild fall weather.  I hope that stays true for the rest of the season!

Papillon