We don’t generally see much in the way of fall foliage color in the Pacific Northwest, because the majority of our trees are conifers and the leaves of our few deciduous trees and shrubs tend to fade away into drab shades of brown before falling into the mud. However some combination of weather factors brightened up our foliage this fall, perhaps the early cool nights and episodes of heavy rainfall, after an unusually long hot summer, which followed a wetter winter than usual.
Recent windstorms and wet weather have pretty much knocked all loose leaves down by now but I took some photos of the color around where I live in the maritime NW. These are all native or naturalized flora growing wild (except one) by roadsides or in fields or woods.
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What kind of fall color have you seen this year? Other observations of nature in your neighborhood?
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