Tamaracks are unique among conifers in that they turn yellow and drop their needles in the fall, just like deciduous trees do. They can add quite a dramatic blaze of color in an otherwise solid-green forest in October and November.
I took this in our woods. (Click on the first photo to enlarge - I took this shot half-way blind - didn't have my glasses on - but it turned out pretty cool.)
Took these on the way home from church. It was a misty foggy day but as I said, they make splashes of yellow among the dark green. Pretty larches!
