Autumn is over!

We have surely enjoyed the autumn season here. There are so many varieties of trees which have turned colors at different times and it has been beautiful. The oak trees near where we walk to get from our apartment to the streetcar dropped thousands of acorns and now all the brown oak leaves are on the ground. Last week there were leaves coming down like snow. It was beautiful, but kind of sad at the same time. There are a few larch trees in the woods next to our apartment building. They look like evergreen trees in the summer with green needle-like leaves, but they turn yellow and then kind of an orange-yellow in the fall before they drop off. We walked through the woods and found a short cut that really turned out to be a longer way to the grocery store, but it was beautiful. The ground was totally covered with yellow and brown leaves.

We have been watching this maple treet outside our balcony gradually turning from green to orange. Now, almost all the leaves have fallen off of it. :(

Below is a photo of the larch trees.