If you are like me the end of the summer season is always a difficult time. My garden is fading, and temperatures are cooling. I am busy cleaning my decorative birdhouse, outdoor garden furniture and wooden outdoor furniture and doing other fall cleanup.
One aspect of this season that I do look forward to, other than the beginning of the football season, is the beauty of the leaves changing.
Watch this Fall Foliage Report from National Weather Channel for information on areas of the country which is starting to changeover. Also take note of those areas and their weather for this upcoming weekend if you want to take a weekend or day trip for wonderful viewing of these changing colors.
I will be continue to update my blog with these reports from the Weather Channel through this Fall season. So come back soon to view these continuing reports.
Some interesting facts I found about Fall Foliage follows:
- Leaves of some trees such as birches, tulip poplars, redbud and hickory, are always yellow in the fall, never red.
- The fall leaves of a few trees, including sugar maple, dogwood, sweet gum, black gum and sourwood, are usually red but may also be yellow.
- The most intense of fall color occurs in in areas such as New England, with almost pure stands of a few types of trees, such as maples and birches, that all turn color at the same time during the short fall season.
- The most varied fall color, as well as the longest lasting, occurs in areas such as the southern Appalachians, where a dozen or more kinds of trees may change color at slightly different times over the longer fall season.
- Evergreen trees may shed their older leaves, which often turn bright yellow, in spring rather than fall, but they never drop all their leaves at one time, thus staying green all year
Fall is also a great time to buy wooden outdoor furniture, decorative birdhouses, outdoor garden fountain and tuned wind chimes. This will be the last time to buy new garden decor at 2008 prices!!!
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