There's a story here:
These twigs, with their orange and green leaves (needles) are growing from a large cypress tree blown down by Hurricane Ida and now laying in ShellBank Bayou. Normally the orange leaves would turn a light brown and fall off the twig as winter dormancy approaches. However, because the cypress is uprooted the tree has gone into some kind of a survival mode and has created brand new leaves even tho it's late fall.
Trees are astonishing!
