More purple

I am watching the fall changes.  It seems the elderberry is more purple than when I planted it.  I don*t think it is really... but in contrast to other leaves around it, and maybe the fall light which comes in at a different angle, it looks more purple.  Different perspective, I think.  I will have to see what it does in the winter and spring.  Next year there may be fruit.

The elderberry bush has rooted firmly

In the garden bed 

next to the rhubarb.

Its leaves are more purple

This fall.

Of course It might be just the contrast

With the colors changing

Everywhere else.

It*s hard to know.

More purple than what?

More purple

Than what I remembered when I planted it

In early June?

I wonder when the leaves fall

Yellow and orange around it,

I wonder

Will it look greener somehow?

I wonder what it does

In winter:

Go underground and dormant

Like so much else?

It is my first year

With the elderberry.

I will need to wait to see

What happens next.