These are two different huge old horse chestnut trees, growing a hundred meters or so apart in the cemetery. As they are the same kind of tree, I can't help but wonder why one is still holding on to most of its leaves while the other one has already dropped all but a few! (But I'm not expecting anyone to have the answer...)
I don't know what kind of tree this is.
These are larches, which are "deciduous conifers". Unlike spruces and pines that stay green all year round (and are much more common here), these loose their needles in winter.
A display of late autumn colours along the railway (photo taken from a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists over the railway that I cross almost daily).
Tomorrow, daylight saving time ("summer time") ends here. From experience I predict that I'll welcome getting back to "normal" in the mornings, but that it will take me a while to get used to it suddenly getting dark an hour earlier in the afternoon... (And as usual, I wish they'd stop the whole nonsense of changing the clock twice a year, and keep the same time all year round!)
The tree in that first photo is lovely - amazing how it's still retained it's leaves. There is still quite a lot of colour around for late October and some of your trees still have a few leaves left.
ReplyDeleteAgree with you - the clock changes are annoying and don't serve any useful purpose apart from robbing us of precious daylight.
Carol, luckily at least today I did not have anything special planned, or I'd probably have missed it... (Tired last night, went to bed earlier than usual and did not reset my clocks before going to bed; also slept longer than usual this morning = woke up rather confused as to what time it "really" was...)
DeleteI love all the trees, my fav is the larch. so beautiful and a little wonky looking limbs. I want the time to stop changing, but this is my favorite because it adds light to the morning. we are early birds and I will be able to walk Beau an hour earlier. ours is next weekend
ReplyDeleteSandra, I'm far from an early bird myself but like to imagine that more light in the morning would make it easier to get up a bit earlier. This morning did not really support that theory, though... ;-)
DeleteAccording to Peter Wohlleben, German forester and author, trees communicate via biochemistry and alert each other to potential threats. Also, some trees are more ‚cautious‘ than others and shed their leaves as soon as the first cold nights and shortened days are here, he says. Of course, it could simply be a question of the soil around each tree being a litte different, of rodents living among the roots of one but not the other.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are beautiful as always, Monica. We‘ll soon compare them with mine, taken yesterday during a walk across the main cemetery in my town.
Meike, in this case, these two trees seem to be of different opinion... :)
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