Most of mine have changed with the exception of 1 Jap Maple,1 sawtooth oak, and 1 english oak, the 2 oaks are still green. We had a good frost a couple days ago too, it is evident on some of the plants, but these 2 are being stubborn.I promised the Eng Oak to the neighbor because there are 2 Eng oak in the same spot from seed so I don't waste a good tree I'm waiting for dormancy and it is taking it sweet ol time. But the reason for it, since the 3 trees are very close to each other, must be that the location is sheltered from wind in a sort of courtyard type location, high wood fence, building and Nor spruce blocking wind. If you have a microclimate too, maybe that can explain it, if not sorry I couldn't help.

The photos are all so beautiful. In my area we are having quite an interesting fall. I'm not sure if it's late or just a dud. So far many leaves have fallen off the trees w/o even turning, or just crisping up. We have a lot of antracnose from the wet spring so I think it's really affecting the foliage turn this year. There is also a lot that is still green and that might be because we really haven't had any cold nights. I garden for the fall more than any other season and yet I can't seem to find a decent picture to frame up outside. Maybe as the nights get colder the colors will catch up. Time will tell. So......I did something different for some pictures. I collected some pretty leaves, berries and flowers and photographed them. There's a lot of interesting things going on throughout the garden. I LOVE fall! Perhaps as some of the trees in the yard turn (if they do) I'll get some pictures of whole trees!

Maya, my Limelight turns from lime to creamy white, and then pink. The blooms don't really turn into a deep burgundy color before they go brown.

Suzie, Hopefully the maple tree you think might have gotten too dry is able to pull through. Most trees can withstand fairly long dry spells once they're well-established, but I always watch young trees extra carefully their first three years in the ground since their root systems are small compared to those of older trees. Y'all have had more wind than we have if the leaves are blowing off the trees and/or blowing around. We did have one kind of windy day last week, but the wind wasn't terribly strong. And, would you believe that I found cracks 1/2" wide in the ground on the north side of the house just about 8 or 10' from the house yesterday. I wasn't expecting the ground to be that dry considering an entire foot of rain fell in September, although most of the rain fell very early in September, courtesy of the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine. I think 3" of that rain must have come with the little tornado (only an EF-0) that touched down in the Red River just west of our place because only a tiny geographic area near us got those 3" of rain as the tornado was passing by. So, I guess I'll water the ground on the north side of the house today because I don't want the ground cracking any more that close to the house. Paula, I still have hummers, or at least I did on Wed.-Thurs. but don't think I saw any on Fri.-Sat. Still, I'll put out fresh nectar today and see if any more show up. We have a whole lot of flowers in bloom here that they like, so if this is like most autumns we'll keep seeing stragglers for quite a while. I used to take the feeders down in late Sept. but discovered if I leave them up, stragglers will occasionally come through for weeks and weeks after I think the hummers are gone. In fact, in recent years, I've left up and refilled one feeder all winter long because the bees and wasps visit it, and I'll even see them at it in January and February. We still have lots of butterflies too and that's likely because there are so many flowers in bloom right now. Thanks to the heavy Sept. rains, we have all kinds of wildflowers blooming in the fields and, of course, all the usual flowers in our beds are still blooming and in prety good shape for this late in the year. I'm ready for some brisk fall winds and some nice autumn leaf color. It doesn't feel like fall here yet, notwithstanding the nice cool nights and chilly mornings. The afternoons still feel like summer---hot, hot, hot although not toasty hot like August weather. Paula Mc......guess what? Hurricane Otto has been out there in the Atlantic doing its thing, and the NHC is now watching an "area of investigation" that is, perhaps, destined to become the next named storm, and if it does, its name will be "Paula". I haven't checked the tropical weather this morning yet to see what has happened overnight, but when I looked at it last night, "your" storm had a 60% chance of development in the next 48 hours. And, speaking of weather, we could have some strong to severe weather in our state in the next day or two, so I'm going to go post a thread about that and link the maps. That horrid old word "hail" is in that forecast and none of us wants that. Dawn