At this point in the season, multiple trees at my place have lost their leaves completely. There are lots of leaves on the ground, many of which I identified to be red maple leaves. The oak trees I observed at my place still have their leaves, which are beautiful shades of yellow and orange. Many of the leaves on one of the white oak trees I saw were still green in the center, and were yellow around the edges. Currently, these trees are forming their abscission layer where the leaf stems join the branches, which cuts off water and nutrients to the leaves and causes them to change color and fall off the tree. One sugar maple tree I saw had bright yellow leaves. I was unable to properly identify some of the other trees because they had already lost all of their leaves. The needles on the eastern hemlock trees seemed to be primarily near the ends of the branches.
