The ‘leaf peepers’ are normally out when the maples are red, orange and yellow and the later turning oaks are often ignored, especially since many oaks just turn to a brown color but some oaks show some color too. Here two different varieties of oak are leading in from opposite sides of the narrow path.
And since I was looking at the leaves and not the tree, I am not totally for sure on the varieties, but from the leaves, it appears to be a white oak and a red oak, even though the white oak that is more red at the moment.
As a kid learning about trees in 4-H, there was a little saying to help remember the white from the red oaks. Since the Native Americans used arrows, the red oak leaves were pointy and the white colonists used round bullets, so the white oak had round ends. So I wonder if these two oaks reaching in are making peace or war, but whatever the case may be, I will enjoy the display of colors.
Joining Oaks
Great picture and I also just learned something about the red and white oak trees 🙂
Was good info on the red vs. white oak. Will have to try and remember this
Very interesting facts about the leaves.