Falling Leaves

Red oaks light up the autumn woods. ©2016 Michelle Louis

In summer, the combination of sky blue with the luminous greens of a healthy forest is a calm alliance. Fall brings drama. Chlorophyll stops converting light to sugars as green disappears, revealing more cautionary yellows, oranges, and reds. Leaves boldly glitter, then flutter to the ground. Winds shift. Winter can no longer be denied.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country,​ but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. -Aldo Leopold

Learn more about the chemistry of fall colors here. 
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