How about a fall festival of foliage where we post photos of leaves?

[Equilibrium]

It's a great time of year... you can't hardly go outside without running into something that's putting on a show. Here's a few I really liked but.... I'm still going through photos.

[dapjwy]

Good idea for a thread.

I'll play along. I just took this today:

[Hedgerowe]

Hope that this Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) will do! Taken recently in the Shenandoah National Park, on one of nature's most perfect days.

[Hedgerowe]

Some leaves from Maryland's Eastern Shore, where autumn is just beginning.

Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
Sycamore, I think (Platanus occidentals)

[dapjwy]

Originally Posted by Hedgerowe

Hope that this Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) will do! ...

Nice! The contrasting blue berries and the rock face just add to the color.

[Hedgerowe]

Thank you!

[dapjwy]

Originally Posted by Hedgerowe

Some leaves from Maryland's Eastern Shore, where autumn is just beginning.

Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)

We only seem to be about a week or so ahead of you--based on the color I'm seeing in your pictures.

Sassafras is one of my favorites...and the one I planted a few years ago is now almost as tall as me. Yay! (Too bad the other one I planted that year was eaten down by a rabbit and I ended up losing it.)

Originally Posted by Hedgerowe

Sycamore, I think (Platanus occidentals)

Question assumptions.

I'd take your signature line into consideration on this one. It doesn't look like sycamore to me--the leaf shape for one, and the color for another...I was going to say maple, but they have leaves arranged oppositely, if I remember correctly...and from what I see of the picture, they look like they may be alternate.

[dapjwy]

Originally Posted by Hedgerowe

Thank you!

You're welcome.

[Equilibrium]

Veddy veddy nice!!!!!! This time of year really is the best in the eye candy department!!!
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Here's a few photos I took at a little jewel of a fen in Ohio. It's called the Jackson Bog for some reason but it's actually a fen. Go figure but either way.... it was a super high-quality site that's being maintained!!! I'd like to see it in late spring.... I really think it'd be awash in life at that time of year.

[scarecrowsdrm]

I am so envious of all those lovely photos! Down here, highs are still in the 80's (at least 'til tomorrow) and no fall color to be found. Beautiful leaf color here depend a lot on the temps and rain amounts; I remember a lot of drab brown autumns in the past---maybe we will get lucky this year. Hedgerow, your shot of the crimson Virginia Creeper with berries blew me away! Mine sometimes get a mottled yellow and green; I have seen a few turn scarlet, but nothing like those in your photo!