The maple tree in my front yard is turning colors. The green in the leaves grows lighter to be replaced by yellow. The result is a tree that glows when the sun reflects off the leaves.
In the back yard, the seasons are marked by the kind of leaves littering my deck and tracked onto the kitchen floor. In spring, the redbud sheds its small blooms across the deck, then come the seed pods of the maple and the tassels of the oak. Maple leaves, oak leaves carpet the deck in summer and fall, simply changing their color from green to orange or gold.
The deck is mostly bare of decoration during winter months, but then, so are the trees. Seasons come; seasons go. The trees adapt and so must we.
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