Tim speaks of the Autumn Blues. Here in New England, autumn isn’t blue: it’s red and yellow and orange!

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Elizabeth Bowen

Tim speaks of the Autumn Blues. Here in New England, autumn isn’t blue, it’s red and yellow and orange!

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Red


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Yellow


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Orange


Pixels on phosphor (or liquid crystals) can’t possibly due justice to those orange trees in full sun. Or the yellow or red ones, for that matter.

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Tracks


In fairness, when the leaves fall off (as most have by now), there is a lot more blue around on a cloudless day.

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Blue


And we get those. Cloudless days, I mean. We all know it always rains in Vancouver.

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Fire in the Trees

It really was a spectacular autumn.

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