Fall color from Stop sign red to ……. pink?

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The other day as I wandered through the fog taking in the colors, I started to see connections and transitions in the colors around me. Walking around with a camera will do that. Our maple in the front yard is what can only be described as Stop sign red. On a sunny day you need sunglasses it’s so bright.

In another garden I came across another maple that could be a color match for a fire hydrant.

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I found big maple leaves so red the color vibrated on our now green green grass. That’s one of my favourite benefits of living in a rainy place, the grass is green all winter.

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The crocosmia in our front garden glowed when the sun came out.

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And then the deeper red of this tree in the neighbourhood, it’s trunk full of the most lovely gray green moss.

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But there are more colors out there, purples, like the deep purple maple leaves found in the park next to the house.
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Then there is the wine colored purple and green in these swirling and twisting Canna Lily leaves….

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Or the magenta of the Autumn Joy sedum now in it’s glory in the front garden.

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And then what did I see but the full transition of red to pink, which is, to me, really a summer color. But no, here it is glowing under the ferns in another garden in these tiny delicate cyclamen.

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Or in my own garden, the gorgeous pink of the bergenia leaves as they change and die.

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But I leave you with the last color of the Hydrangea blooms, earlier in summer a periwinkle blue, and now, a lovely tint of magenta pink. And I haven’t even covered all the yellows and oranges…..

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