Autumn hit as hard as summer had and so pushed the canopy to oranges and reds so fast it felt like it arrived overnight.

You can picture it happening.

Another burning orange sunset, sat on a black horizon, yet today’s more distant than yesterday, the space between them just great enough to change the timing of the sunset, at just the right angle; resulting in redder sunsets that last longer.

Before this, the greens had been yellowing slowly.

Some had reached orange by now, but even some of the greenest leaves had shed to red overnight.

Once this red autumn curtain falls and becomes a red carpet for winter, branches and tree trunks will steal our hearts for a season and a half.