I’ve never quite figured out why leaf peeping is big business, though it is always a major conversation topic even amongst those with no aesthetic or financial interest in it.  Odd.

Still it is a spectacular sight!  This year the ashes just sort of dropped.  Some years, they are beautifully shading of purple/bronze amongst the still green maples.  The black birches are coming into their own though.  The two behind the big garden are a glorious golden canopy.  The woodbine is starting its creeping blaze, see yesterday’s photo.  The big woodbine will eventually turn the interior of the eighty foot hemlock by Minnietrost scarlet.  A few red maples have started to turn, a dull silvered red.  The silver maples are picking up caramel highlights.