When we arrived in October, everything was green.  It was different from the wild, wonderful colors of the West Virginia hills where I grew up with all of their vibrant reds, oranges, yellows. . . As we entered December in Asia, I had decided the leaves just didn’t change here.  Different tree species or whatever, I’m not one to tell you about how all of that works.  BUT, now that it’s nearly Christmas we have vibrant and beautiful yellow leaves falling all over from the Gingko trees (native to China)!! I LOVE them.  They are most lovely.  Maybe just because I was kind of bummed about the lack of color before?  Regardless of the timing (yellow leaves vs. snow for Christmas),  I am thankful