You could go the onion humor route or you could be like “why would this be news?” and create a reason like the tree was an important old tree or autumn is start

You could go the onion humor route or you could be like “why would this be news?” and create a reason like the tree was an important old tree or autumn is starting earlier than it ever has or the entire world is shrunk down and exists in this tree or this is the last tree on the face of the earth or…