Fall Color Variations

 Here are just a couple of fall pictures.  The autumn color here hasn't been that good this year; a lot of leaves were blown down by storms and the trees are turning late.  The hickories and red maples in the woods are pretty nice, but the poplars were largely barren already.

I think both of these are sassafras seedlings.  The first one is what I have assumed to be the more typical color, yellow:

Nearby, on the other side of the driveway is this:

Doing a Google image search reveals that orange sassafras is common, but most of what I have seen has been yellow...or maybe that's just what I have looked for (see, for another example, the first picture in this post).  More interesting is that I don't see any adult sassafras trees around, but these are within about 20 feet of each other and may have originated from the same parent.

Otherwise, this fall in Georgia has been pretty disappointing.  Many leaves dropped while green.  Now in late November, many trees are bare, while others are just turning.  Some oaks are still mostly green.  It has been odd.