I have taken this week for a venture up north to where nature offers up color as a parting gift as seasons change.  For those of you who are Texans, this will come as a treat... for with us, central Texas folks, we just fade to a gentler shade of brown or green.  The fleeting celebration abounds up north, albeit for only a short while...

I posted on Facebook that this picture reminded me of perhaps an aerial photo of a Martian subdivision - complete with roads and lots.  When in reality it's just a close up of a gloriously red maple leaf.  Do you see the heart at the middle??

The following are images of other things that tickled my southern imagination - please enjoy - as I did!