October is my favorite month of the year, with its cooler temperatures and leaf color. And football, soccer, and field hockey games. We live in an area with three Division One colleges!
We decided to take a trip to the North Carolina mountains near Boone for a weekend in mid-October to get our leaf-peeping in. Nothing much had been happening in Durham, still warm and green, and I was yearning for leaf color. We missed the peak color by a week but came home having seen some lovely oranges, yellows and some reds at the lower altitudes. Two weeks later – wow! Everything here just popped. The best color in years. Maybe because of the long, long, and very hot summer? Here’s a sampling.
But of course with the warm days, we still have flowers on our patio, including one stubborn sunflower!
This is a camellia tree – they usually bloom in November. We had two huge trees filled with blossoms at our old house.
Hope you got to enjoy some fall color, too!
