While our friends in the northeast certainly have bragging rights on the best fall color, let me share with you the surprise of color in our own back yard of East Texas. Yes it is true that about 80% of the trees in East Texas are pine or other evergreen variety and have a beauty all their own, we do have a noticeable spattering of hardwoods that offer spectacular color during December.
It starts out simple with bright yellows of sycamore and sweet gum.
Deep oranges of maples and oak do their best to add to the chorus.
Some variety of pear and Texas red oak also show their colors.
Not at all what you thought we’d have here……… eh?
Our local botanical gardens in Nacogdoches is also quite impressive with the varieties of Japanese maple they have in a myriad of colors.
But every now and then one can find the most colorful landscape down a seldom traveled county road.
This one is about 3 miles from our home.
So that is my surprise of East Texas color. I hope it will be appreciated by my viewers and by so many of our friends that are already blanketed in white at this time of the year.
Oh, and one last thing:
Love the color show! I am a transplanted Texan, born and raised in San Antonio now living in Minnesota, and it always amazes me how many people think Texas is all desert. I guess we can blame that on the cowboy movies!
Beautiful, that canopy of Japanese maples especially! We raked the last of our leaves last week but, luckily, no snow yet here in our part of West Virginia. Just a few flurries, but winter only begins this week. The upside is the days get longer – yay!
Happy Holidays to both of you, Kim & Mark!
Gorgeous! That was a nice treat!
Thank you Fonda !!
Gorgeous. Wish I was out there to view such beauty. However I still wouldn’t trade the mild winters here in El Paso for the cold of East Texas nor the tornados!
Beautiful!
Looks like one of those is a Bradford Pear…we have one too!
Thank you for sharing some beauty from your corner of the world.
you are most welcome Christine. Bradford Pear….yes that is the one…I could not remember the name.
Just beautiful, I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas
Thank you Heather. Our wishes go to you and yours as well.