Fall Color in Friburgo

When I arrived in Friburgo early Friday afternoon, it was warm with bright sunshine. By three fog, rain and a chill had moved in. We had a fire in the fireplace and cold feet all weekend.

It is hard to explain but even with fog and rain the air is crystal clear. The colors look different, vibrant, alive. I took some photos of what it looks like at our house in the fall. It is almost like being in the north of the USA, enjoy

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Aggressive Greens and other colors

It is true that the seasonal changes in Brazil are very subtle and that the green during all seasons is very aggressive, but I wanted to show you some of the patches of color that appear throughout the year within this prevailing green. The majority of my photos are taken from our veranda, or along the roads around Nova Friburgo. I have thousands of photos of flowers cultivated and otherwise, and no I won't show them all to you, for now the photos are only of the flowering trees that grow in the forest locally. Whenever the blossoms appear, I can't help but stop and take a photo - well many photos - the shock of the color variations is so profound. I don't have a good reference guide for the names of all of these trees, but I know that the tree with the pink flower that blooms in June is commonly called a Faux Cherry or Cerejeira-ornamental (Prunus Serrulata); the deep orange blossoms (January) are Espatodea, Bisnaqueira (Spathodea Campanulata); and the yellow (nearly all year round) is Falso-barbatimao, canafistula (Cassua leptophylla)