Seasonal pleasures

Having spent the height of autumn in New England, it seems improbable to highlight the astonishing color changes in a few California trees observed in the last week. But they are all around.

I've long joked, since becoming a California immigrant over 50 years ago, that instead of turning colors, the trees around here just get tired and finally drop their leaves.

 

But that dismissive attitude is unfair to trees doing their deciduous thing.

 

Pretty magnificent, actually.

Naturally we Californians can't resist adding our own embellishments.