During the past three days the leaves have been turning colour and falling, late summer becoming early winter. It’s still fairly warm even at night. I’d been told bright autumn colour is caused by frost but that can’t be true. It’s warm and we have the brightest red, orange and yellow leaves I’ve ever seen.
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A Bad Guide 
A bee, dead of aromatic pain !
That bee’s perfectly fine. Putting up with the smell of roses is in their job description.
“Badamier” leaves can have very bright colours, in tones of red or yellow, before they fall. No frost involved whatsoever.
Oh, yes… It says on Wiki, Until the mid-20th century, the tree had been used extensively in Brazilian urban landscaping, since being a rare case tropical deciduous, their fallen leaves would give a “European” flair to the street. This practice is currently abolished, and the “amendoeiras” are being replaced by native, evergreen trees.
Lovely! Our nights have suddenly gotten cold, but it’s been unseasonably warm for so long we’re only just starting to see the colors change. Impatient leaf-peepers are having to head up to Vermont and upstate New York.
We get mushroom hunters rather than leaf-peepers.
By warm, I mean it’s 40s-50s so not actually freezing yet. One’s standards change.
Yes, the colours came very suddenly, without any frost, and are unusually bright,
At my office there’s an unofficial balcony* overlooking the river and the wooded riverbank on the other side. I’ve taken my lunchbreak there a couple of days this week, feeling almost comfortable in short sleeves.
*) An external accessway from the cafeteria to the technical basement.
Aha. So it’s all over the place. Our climate sometimes seems to be very local.