29 October 2022

Fall color was brilliant this week, especially at sunrise.

Bright red was gone from our hillsides as the maples faded but other leaves took up the slack in yellow and orange. Below:

• Bottlebrush buckeyes are yellow in Schenley Park.
• Japanese knotweed is yellow-orange at Duck Hollow.
• Blue-green porcelain berries were eagerly eaten by migrating robins.
• Red honeysuckle berries attracted cardinals and house finches.
• Confused flowers! Forsythia bloomed along the Nine Mile Run Trail even though its leaves were a deep purple-red.
• Red oaks are red-orange in Schenley Park.

A week from now the trees will be half bare.

(photos by Kate St. John)