Fall Colorage

This is not about how pretty the fall foliage is here in the Northeast - as many of you know it is gorgeous. Despite that, nitwits actually take long drives further northeast to "capture" the beauty, missing the fact that we are surrounded by it.

In our little yard, my Sainted wife has carefully located a variety of plants to keep the garden spiffy in each season (this according to her - as ever, lost on me). In the fall, the leaves of something called a "burning bush" are supposed to turn a bright red. Turns out this happens only when these bushes get a lot of sun, so the brightness of the red can be dimmed by overshadowing trees, like for example, the zillion oaks we have out back.

So every year around this time, I get the "you should have those oak trees trimmed back" speech. I have made my philosophy on gardening patently clear in the Repor here: if it's green, don't intervene.

Nothing about red.