We've had an unusually colorful Christmas season this year due to the combination of drought and a couple of cold snaps. Normally rain and wind would have denuded all the trees on our streets that aren't evergreen, but this year almost every neighborhood was decked out in crimson.
![](http://<a href="http://festivalofthetrees.wordpress.com/" title="The blog carnival for all things arboreal"><img src="http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/505/treesbadgeix8.gif" border="0" alt="Festival of the Trees" /></a>){kind=link}