Fade to ... Yellow.

Say hello to yellow.

Framed by our quaking aspen, some late season reds and oranges peek over the treeline .

Even the ferns are turning yellow.

A highly colored beech behind the house.

After a pretty good color season so far, the maple trees are really starting to shed their leaves and leave the stage to the aspens, birches and beeches. All of these trees tend to have yellow leaves in the fall although the beech has a pretty pronounced brownish-orange tinge. I miss the reds of the maples, but the new stars of the show look like bright splashes of flame across the backdrop of the hemlocks and firs. We're headed to southern Vermont this weekend, and we'll see if the colors down there are worth any pictures.