This blog has been going on for three weeks now and the changes have been big. From the solid green tree in the title picture to the almost bare tree where the sky shows through in the picture on the left.
The change has been slow day by day but over the three weeks the visible part of the process has almost finished.
So here they are in order three weeks ago (October 23), fifteen days ago (November 3), a week ago (November 8), yesterday (November 11), today November 12.
I've never really looked at a series of photos like this before and several things are surprising. The colour change is not the most noticeable thing (particularly on the oak tend to go from green to brown without ever being bright yellow. (It's the tannin in the leaves that does it - more of that soon). Most noticeable is the thinning of the leaves on the tree so suddenly we can see the twisted branches. The most noticeable colour change is on the ground replacing green grass with a bright browny-orange. Lastly the big changes are quick changing from a tree that is almost all green to one that is almost all bare.
Talking of big changes within the next few days the heading for this blog will become Oak tree in Autumn and Spring. The New Zealand oak is being photographed as I write this and daily pictures of that should come any day now.
Tomorrow I hope to show a series showing how a leaf changes colour.
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