I Love This Time Of Year

Ah...there's nothing like this time of year! The leaves are turning golden, then brown. And on the windy days they fall off the trees in droves, and are blown down the street. No, I'm not smoking the wacky tobacky. This is the unusual way we do springtime in Texas.

Here's the deal: live oak trees are evergreen, but they actually lose their leaves so they can replace them with new ones. And the time they do it is right about the time everything else is beginning to green up. So all winter long when the red oaks and pecans and sycamores and sumacs are nekkid, live oaks are covered with their dark green leaves. But around the ides of March they turn yellow-to brown, and then drop, all within a week or two.

You don't have to tell me we do things strangely in Texas. We're known to create odd Presidents as well...