Interesting old tree at the old axe factory

Collinsville Center, CT

October 12, 2005

 

I just thought of something to share.  I asked the guide at Roaring Brook Nature Center the other day about the lack of pretty colored leaves this year on the trees.  I said are they just late in changing because it's been too hot, what's the deal?  He said the leaves always have all those pretty reds, oranges and yellows underneath the green, which is just chlorophyl - um, yeah, not feeling like looking up the spelling there, you get my drift - anyway -  the cool Autumn weather makes the green 'fall off' and that exposes the pretty colors we are all waiting for.

I asked him if he thought they would turn pretty colors soon.  Like next week.  Or after this danged rain stops.  He said this: " I think that next week, after one good windy day, all the leaves are going to just fall to the ground because it'll be time, and I don't think we'll see much color this year." 

Needless to say, I was devastated!  I was looking forward to driving around one day, up into the Northwest hills of Connecticut and taking lots of pictures of lots of trees of lots of colors.  I guess that may not happen.  Drats.