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Colors of Fall in Texas, Well In One Part of Texas

Took this unusual image while at Lost Maples State Natural Area. A favorite place of mine to go backpacking during the fall, weather is half the time raining, half the time brilliant sunny days. Especially beautiful in the fall when the maple leaves start changing throughout the park. They require shorter day periods and a bit of cold weather to change the phenolics in the leaves, resulting in a degredation of the leaf chemistry (a pH change) which changes them from green, yellow, orange, red, and even dark red wine colored one. Probably the closest thing to fall (colorwise) for us Texans. Never miss it. In any case, while backpacking you usually end up with lots of extra time when not hiking so, my friend Bryan posed for a few ideas I had. This was one of the photos, brightened it up a little, and this is the result. :)