I was out this morning enjoying the sunshine and cool (40 something) morning - looking at the sky and clouds and marveling as always that it never seems to look the same…and then taking a close look at this tree as I was thinking and wondering - when do trees leaf out in North Florida. At the same instant, it reminded me that when I arrived here in early November, the trees had most of their leaves - and they were green or at least greenish with just a tinge of the promise of fall color. Gradually, they did turn but the leaves did not drop off immediately as they do in the north.
Some of the area trees turned red in December and even in the yard some red.
Coming clean about the above photo - this was the day when the sun rose in a red panorama so the overall light when I took this was reddish - ramping up the red glow even on the ground. See the post More Sky Photos .
Later in December.
Until February when the trees were bare.
And much as I love the budding of spring, and the green glow as trees and plants respond to more light and warmth…the bare bones of these trees make for beautiful foreground to the ever changing sky and clouds…
The thing is, the trees will leaf out in their own time - in the right time - for them and for this place where they are.
To everything there is a season…even in Florida.
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