Just Before the Storm

Halloween festivities in Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, have been postponed to Friday, November 1, the "Day of the Dead."  That's because of the 100 per cent certainty of heavy precipitation and severe thunderstorms this afternoon, which would endanger the little trick-or-treaters  (and the big ones, too).  In NOAA's forecast there is also mention of the possibility of a few tornadoes. 

So yesterday I photographed the increasingly beautiful colors on the trees in my neighborhood, just in case the high winds should shake loose the rest of the leaves now dressed in their red and yellow Halloween costumes, carpeting the ground with them and leaving only the still preponderantly green foliage in the storm gusts' wake.

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