Marathon Pundit: Photos: Morton Grove fall color festival, part two

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Photos: Morton Grove fall color festival, part two

Last week's Morton Grove fall color festival was so well received, I thought I would do another one.

Linne Woods, the usual subject of my Morton Grove nature posts, got short shrift in part one. I remedying the situation. Lost in the prism is a man.

The doe is a little easier to find in this Linne Woods sea of yellow.

With the exception of this photograph, which was taken this morning, all of the pictures were captured in October. This is a stand of sugar maples in St. Paul Woods.

Back to Linne Woods: A young red oak.

Not every tree with yellow leaves in Linne Woods is a sugar maple. That's a witch hazel.

Nor do all sugar maples have yellow autumn leaves. These Miami Woods maples prove it.

An oak grove in Miami Woods.

A young bur oak near the banks of the North Branch of the Chicago River, in, you guessed it, Linne Woods. My un-scientific survey reveals that bur oaks are the most common oaks in Morton Grove's forest preserves.