Day 49 - An Oak Leaf Cluster

I don't understand oak leaves. At least not the ones around Fredericton. They seem to want to hang onto their branches all the way through the winter. We've had something like seven feet of snow and there are the oak leaves, hanging around, minding their own business, refusing to fall down and join all their friends and colleagues on the ground.

I've never noticed this before. Is this normal for oak leaves? I think they're quite a lovely colour, though, and as the snow melts they add much needed flavour to the landscape. Too bad the point-and-shoot camera has such trouble focusing through the branches to capture the moving leaves. If you look very closely, I think you'll see that the leaves themselves are just a bit fuzzy in this shot.