It’s officially the first weekend of Autumn. In the South that doesn’t usually mean too much. The temperature’s have moderated some already, in the beginning of this month, getting warmer again as well, but staying in a lower realm for the night and early morning, and usually not getting higher than the mid-80’s during the day, if not much lower.
Here the trees generally start changing color and dropping in November. We’ve seen plenty brown and drop already, and some color changing first. Why? The trees “feel drought stricken”. We are out of the drought, but less rain this summer than we’ve had the prevoius two seasons seems to have tricked them, my own analysis, into thinking it’s droughty again. Six years of drought has a heavy toll.
Well, some trees are holding their leaves fine, and some partially, so I’m hoping we’ll see some color in another month or so.