1 thing that happens when the season turns from summer to autumn

1. Leaves on the tree transform. They turn deep shades of orange or red or yellow, perhaps a hue that is in between, described by interior decorators and paint merchants as warm or fiery, aromatic, toasty or ‘simply spice’. But this is gradual, and it is foolish to think that on the first day of March you will wake to a world newly tinted, that the blues of summer will have taken a new, more inviting form. Change happens over time, and you cannot make bets on or with the seasons. When you pray for sunshine, rain will fall plainly, unapologetically on your head. When you expect thunder and cower from what can only be the fatal strike of lightning, you are hit instead with a rainbow, benevolent in a sky that is airy and deep. Of course, some trees are evergreen. Best be wary of these.