Nov 042014
On the same small roadside sweetgum sapling there were leaves that were still quite green, others that had turned a deep, nearly purple, shade of burgandy, and leaves like this one, mostly red with edges of yellow-green. This is the one time in the year when I appreciate sweetgum, even though it is the weediest tree in the Georgia Piedmont (or rather, is tied with loblolly pine for that distinction). But right now, as it turns an array of colors, I am grateful to encounter it on my daily Piney Woods Church Road walk.
