Southeast Louisiana has very little fall foliage, perhaps a tallow tree here or there. And, we might get a little color in December or January on the maples and some of the oaks.
So, we settle for our swamps and bayous and the creatures that inhabit them.
I was shocked today when I went out to an area that was once lush with cypress trees and cane reeds and palmettos. Intrusion of salt water from Lake Pontchartrain and lack of fresh water and alluvial soil from the Mississippi River (now dammed up by levees)have caused the cypresses to die. There are so many dead and dying trees that it looks like a graveyard of sticks reaching to the sky.