The fact that deciduous trees drop their leaves in order to survive harsh winter conditions explains why we don’t have many such trees in this area: our winters are too mild. Yes, temperatures do drop, and perhaps we occasionally have to resort to using an umbrella or a hood to cope with rain, but even that is not common. When it does rain, though, it does so with a vengeance: we get the same yearly rainfall as Paris, but with 100 fewer days of precipitation, but I digress. The whole point is that because there is such a paucity of deciduous trees in this area, we don’t get the beautiful falls of other regions, so we hold on to every bit of autumnal color we can, for instance the one provided by these lovely red leaves climbing up a wall on the Amadeus campus.