Winter Overtakes Autumn

The leaves from my sweetgum tree are now scattered from yesterday's winter storm. From the looks of these leaves, little icicles had formed on their tips while the temperatures hovered just at the freezing mark yesterday, and then when the wind picked up and the temperatures dropped to single digits last night the leaves let go of the tree but the tiny icicles remained attached to the leaf tips. Cool stuff. (The last one is from a sugar maple . . . )