Autumn Shades

There’s something about orange and red. 
Normally not my favourite colours,
but when Mother Nature dips her brush
mixing of apricot and scarlet on the leaves;
when she stitches threads of crimson 
mixed with russet; tinged with bronze,
and blends the shades of fire on the trees,
then washes every canvas with sunshine gold,
they’re the most beautiful of colours
I’ve ever seen. 



october 2005
Janet Reid