COLOURS ON THE ROAD

The poignant end of autumn's beauty lingers in the roadside palette. Rain soaked leaves vibrate with their remaining colour,  creating splashes of colour on the dark surface of the road, leaving a 'Jackson Pollack' style painting on the road's dark canvas. 

Brown, the quntessential colour of age and decay dominates now. Leaves, once colourful, have shrivelled and fluttered in despair to the ground.  They lie sadly in puddles or ruffled to the side of the road where with other aged leaves, together they rim the road with a strip of multi-hued brown.

Red, the colour associated with this season, no longer brightens the trees. Faded red leaves can be found on the road verge, adding a dull tone to the predominant browns.  

Occasionally a bright sparkle catches our eye, and leads to a smile on our lips as we remember the array of colours on the trees just days earlier. 

Yellow lingers the longest.

 It creates a visual display of tints and shades ranging from the saturated chrome yellow to the palest straw yellow.  It reminds us of the fading warm sun of summer and that during autumn fades gently into the bright chill of winter. 

This year we have enjoyed a determinedly pedestrian autumn.  It is November, the weather remains pleasant, and swatches of colour remain on some trees and bushes. 

In maritime Canada, have enjoyed this year's long autumn..