The calm before the storm!

Everyone around here is waiting......wondering if the coming storm will be anything like the total devastation we saw in October 1987!
I for one hope not, as my precious forest is only just returned to decent broad-leaved woodland.
With the storm in mind I felt I had better head out and see if I could get any pictures of leaves before they all blew into heaps on the ground! I did manage to get a few pics of leaves flying around in the wind, but think I might just get more of those tomorrow, so in the end I decided to repeat a blip from last year and bring you a beautiful red leaf just resting in the needles of a pine tree!
To be fair the leaf last year was yellow, but the principle is the same, so please forgive me.
I liked this shot, because apart from the leaf, everything else in the shot is a nice cool green , making the colour of the leaf even more vibrant!