`Fall is a sneaky season. As I watch the leaves gently wafting to the ground, that is what they do, I realize it’s a precursor to snow flakes taking the same path. In the back and along the perimeter of the yard are pine trees. They basically do little but stand around being green and at some point shed a few pine cones, but the front and side yard has these 100 foot trees [in my master gardener training, trees were not my focus so I am death on identifying them] 8 of them. In the summer, full of beautiful green leaves, now turning and dropping like flies, covering the grass.
ps in the first picture the barren spot under the tree is where the new rhododendrons are growing after having cut them back to the ground
