Changing leaves in Louisiana

When we were in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton in October of 2017 we were fascinated by the beauty of the changing leaves.  Down South we have a lot of trees that stay green all year like the stately oaks and magnolias in just about every yard and all the green spaces.

(We just recently started calling them green spaces. )

 But we have enough of them for people to think we are green all year round.  That is not really true.  

I am guessing that the Louisiana trees are such bright colors all at once this year is because of that cold snap we had lasting 3 days a couple weeks back.  It had been warm up till the day of the freeze and that night it surprised everyone by dropping below 32 degrees for an hour or two.

I posted a few pics of our trees on my Instagram when I went to the retina specialist earlier this week. 

 But I wanted to see how Louisiana compared to Nova Scotia.  

In first position are the Nova Scotia Trees:

The green color just makes the red colors pop!

Such a contrast makes the colors so rich looking.











Here is a brilliant red.

Add in the yellows and the world begins to play with your senses.

And look, rusty stuff!  This bridge was incredible.











This is a maple tree.  Wait till you see the Louisiana picture.

Maple trees are maple trees!








So here are the Louisiana photos from the last couple of days around Baton Rouge.

This is one of the Sweet Gum trees.  They create a seed pod that is spikey and when you step on it you feel like you are dying.  In the big feet of the Swissys the smaller pods would get stick between their pads when they ran around in our back yard.  

These are cypress trees.  They have short needles like

a Christmas tree and they have those pesky knees that grow up from the ground in your yard......and your lawn mower hits them...….and breaks its shaft.  That is why we do not have  cypress trees in our yard

Here are the maple trees.  They look so much like the ones in Nova Scotia!  Like I said, maples are maples!  We have a lot of them down here as they are a beautifully shaped tree.

Well never mind, I can't find the maple tree picture.  

These are hickory nut trees I think.  From my yard again.

The red one my be a maple tree, it was on side the I-10 as we were going to the 

 Here is one of the trees from the campus of Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, where most of my doctors seem to want their offices to be and where the most traffic in the city seems to be.

This is a crepe myrtle tree,  They do turn a nice shade of orangy red.  Also on OLOL Campus.

And the other crepe myrtle turned more of a yellow orange.

Interesting.








Not sure what these two trees are, but they are very pretty.  Essen Lane used to be a quiet two lane  street before the hospital grew into a world class trauma center, Children's  Miracle Network Hospital and a huge Mary Byrd Perkins Cancer Center.    And that great Indian Restaurant.  India's I think.

I am now officially hungry.