Living on the slope in Bora Bora. No snow there!

Ashcroft, CO

Last year on this date, we were in Sicily. We were on a trip up to Mt. Etna (still active) and this was our first decent view. That is lava in foreground.

Someone posted here that they love yellow trees. I know that ginko trees can be a striking, brilliant yellow, and there are several near my office.

The ones along the street were pretty solidly yellow, but they are small and unimpressive.

I've been waiting for the big one across the street to turn. Its an impressively large tree, about 4 feet in diameter and over 150 years old. This is the tree as of this past Friday:

Yesterday I could see that it was pretty much the same as above.

Today every single leaf is on the ground. Every. Single. One.
I had read that ginkos (or at least some ginkos) lose all their leaves in a day, but never quite believed it.

In the yard of a house on my street.