Autumn in Pittsburgh

Over the last couple of months, the city has exploded into this amazing display of brilliant reds, yellows, oranges, and rusts. Since Pittsburgh had a bit of a drought over the summer, the theory is that that has triggered the amazing colours you see below:

These trees turned red in early October. They are at the front of the CMU campus by Forbes Ave.









A couple of weeks later, the red turned into a sparkling gold:



Gold is a common colour around here. The following two shots are on North Craig Street in late September/early October:
 



These are shots taken from my place in North Oakland the last couple of weeks:





And from this morning:


This tree is outside Skibo gym, opposite Posner Hall, early October:



Finally, these trees are in South Side, across the river from CMU, taken this morning: