You can’t hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
Isn’t it odd how the colours of leaves turn warm just as the weather cools? In art, it’s known that warm colours like red, orange and yellow advance, while cool blues, greens and purples recede.
Could the warm colours be nature’s way of bringing leaves to the forefront so that we can examine and appreciate them one more time before they’re gone?
I’ve often wondered what autumn would look like if the leaves turned cool in colour instead of warm? How would the landscape look with leaves of icy blue and turquoise instead of fiery red and orange? Perhaps the combination of cooler weather with cool colours would be too much of a shock to us after months of warm summer weather. The warmer colours are nature’s way of easing us into the cold winter ahead.
Unlike the leaves, autumn’s skies turn bluer than usual at this time of year. Above are excerpts of three of the bluest skies I’ve photographed in the past month. Each one is such a unique hue. Who would have thought there could be so many versions of ’sky blue’ to be found at this time of year? Nature’s true colours never cease to amaze me.
October 19, 2009 at 8:49 am
I only hope that my true colors, as I stride gratefully into my own autumn, are as beautiful as your photos.
Hope you’re on the mend, Amy….love ya!
October 19, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Thank you Cindy. Yes, thankfully I am on the mend. Yippee
October 19, 2009 at 11:24 am
The blue of my gentians at this time of year is always amazing against the warmer surrounding tones.
October 19, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Pamela, I had to do an image search of gentians. They are amazingly blue and must provide quite the striking contrast to other plants at this time of year. I’m going to have to find some to plant. They’re too pretty to pass up.
October 19, 2009 at 12:47 pm
It always seems to me that the variations and contrasts are what make something, or someone, beautiful. The single red maple against deep green pines, the trees against the sky. I guess the reds and oranges are always there, underneath the green. Perhaps there’s an inner blueness there as well, deep in the leaves.
October 22, 2009 at 8:10 am
Gerry, I agree. Both colours and people are more than what they might appear to be at first glance. It’s this underlying complexity that makes the natural world and humans so very interesting.
October 19, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Glad you’re on the mend !
October 19, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Amy — how do some people manage to put pics as part of their posting ?
Sybil
October 22, 2009 at 7:12 am
Hi Sybil, people who have WordPress accounts can add a pic to identify themselves whenever they post on others’ blogs. Hope that answers your question. I don’t know how to add other images to a post comment.
October 19, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Glad you’re feelin better, Amy! How did you do the leaf picture to make it blue??? Gorgeous!
October 22, 2009 at 7:14 am
Joan, I just made a negative of the leaf image using Irfanview.
October 20, 2009 at 11:22 pm
How interesting to place the sky colors side by side. Now you have me curious…
October 22, 2009 at 7:52 am
Dawn, wouldn’t it be neat to create a grid of squares, each one representing the colour of the sky as it appears at the same time (noon, for example)in the same place, on each day of a given month (November, for example)?
October 21, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Breath-taking blues! Just reading this post made me want to breathe deeper. What IF the leaves turned blue? Makes me want to go outside and look and see if there’s ANYTHING blue out here in nature, except of course for the sky. Hmmm…sending you a get-well hug! Hope the doctor’s appointment went well.
October 22, 2009 at 7:55 am
Kathy, except for the sky, the only blue I’m seeing these days is in the feathers of the blue jays.
I am feeling much better (thanks for asking) and seem to be almost back to normal… well, at least normal for me