November has arrived

When I went out a week ago, what struck me was that it still seemed like October: a colorful harvest season. When I went out today, I saw that November had arrived.  The trees were bare and the sky was cloudy.  It has been a windy week, causing the leaves to blow off the trees.  This was the view at Peebles Island today:

The only green leaves I saw on trees were on the buckthorns.

There were some yellow leaves on Norway maples, and some brown leaves on oaks.  Some of oak leaves will stay on the trees throughout the winter.

In the woods, the ground was covered with brown oak leaves.

The one exception to bare trees, gray sky, and brown oak leaves was two red maples in a raised bed by the pavilion.