frondescence: leafage; foliage

Last week was really the last week of brightly colored frondescence.  I knew it was coming, but this week the weather turned frosty, making it feel a little closer to Christmas but also forcing the last few leaves that clung onto the tree finally give up and fall to the ground.  And with that, we enter the time of year here in Oregon that is filled with rainy, wet days.  We will get a break here and there, but once the rain really starts it goes on for awhile.  The thing that I need to cling to myself, is that the rain is why it is so wonderfully green come spring...and I could be shoveling snow.    Bring it on Oregon winter...I have my Vitamin D and I am not afraid to take it!