fall color

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. 

 ~Nova Bair

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, 

in magnitude at least, 

but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame 

to warm the heart. 

 ~Hal Borland

How beautifully leaves grow old. 

 How full of light and color are their last days. 

 ~John Burroughs

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,

That dances as often as dance it can,

Hanging so light, and hanging so high,

On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge