LILY & ROSE
Here are some photos of Lily & Rose. There are a few from the first time we saw them when they were just 4 weeks old. They would fit on your hand at this age and didn't look much like westies!
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Right, well...normally, during the winter months, there’s not enough light or water for photosynthesis. And of course your cherry tree needs to rest, and live off the food it stored up during the summer.
ReplyDeleteHowever... small amounts of the colours you are getting all nostalgic* about in this season of mists and mellow fruitfulness have been there, in the cherry tree leaves, all summer long....but you just couldn’t see them because they were hidden by the green of the chlorophyll. And normally, by this time of year she (your cherry tree) would have expected to begin to shut down her food-making factory, her green chlorophyll gradually giving way to shades of yellow and orange... bright reds and purples a little later if enough glucose has been trapped when the photosynthesis stops.
Now....sunlight and the cool nights of autumn would normally cause her leaves turn the glucose into reddish hues in some of her leaves while others would turn brown from the wastes left in them.
All these wonderful, awesome combinations are missing in your autumn cherry tree foliage this year because...it hasn't been cold enough, early enough, in spite of what the British public thinks! (Chortle) We haven't even had an 'Indian summer' because that is supposed to occur after a frost. And we haven't had a frost!!! (Tee hee hee) It's too late now of course. That's my theory, which is mine.
*Nostalgia - from the Greek meaning 'the pain of an old wound'. Isn't that lovely?
I think we might just get a first frost of the autumn tonight mind!
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