It seems like all of the sudden last week Fall arrived in Roanoke. At my house, there are trees in the front and back yard, and they just last week provided a great sense of privacy. Now, in large part, those same trees are just a bunch of empty branches.

After the sun sets (which is basically around 5PM now), the wind of Fall whips through those branches and causes my old house to be a bit more drafty than I’d like.

But, that’s the season of Fall.

In driving around town recently for my usual commutes I snapped a couple photos that are of nearly the same scenes as a couple of previous posts, but now offer a slightly different perspective.

Scene 1

Traveling along Brandon Avenue towards Salem in early November:

Traveling along Brandon Avenue in early November 2008.

As compared with just about the same spot from 2 months ago in a previous post:

Traveling along Brandon Avenue in mid-September 2008.

Scene 2

The recent scene looking out from atop the bridge on Brandon Avenue (near the intersection with Colonial Avenue) :

The same scene back in early September from a previous post:

With all of the talk about “going green” the season seems to be causing just the opposite outside!

Mill Mountain provides some Fall colors recently.

Mill Mountain taken over by Fall colors (11/7/08).

And as for my yard, I don’t know what color this bush would be now, but I assure you it was as green as could be just a few weeks ago.