Equinox

Just to get this out in the open, I do NOT believe that today is the first day of fall.

The first day of fall is the day after Labor Day.  Labor Day is the last day of summer.

The first day of winter is the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  It snows on that day real often.

The first day that has a chance of being the first day of spring is the second Sunday in March, the day daylight savings springs forward.  Spring, particularly early spring, is often quite chilly and quite resembles late winter.

The first day of summer is Memorial Day, the day they run the Indianapolis 500.

In any case, earlier today the Autumnal Equinox occurred.  So at this point pretty much all of us agree, it ain't summer any more.

I got almost all the way home before anything looked interesting enough to get me to photograph it.

I don't remember lots of cases of trees being half changed in the way this one is, still very, very green in the green parts but completely, totally committed to orange in the part that has changed.

Next to the tennis courts are some really nice oak trees but if you look through the courts and just off the edge of the oaks that foliage visible pretty much directly above the no parking sign is our cottonwood.

Really close to home.