Thanksgiving is in the air across North America as Fall colors the landscape.
Imperceptibly at first, and then with increasing beauty and intensity, the northern latitudes of Canada and the United States are painted each fall with the colors of changing leaves.
Night temperatures fall below freezing, pulling down the daytime temperatures with them as they go.
As the month of October comes to an end up north, fall's vibrant colors give way to blankets of white, painted with long purple shadows as night approaches. It's an omen.
For our snowbirds, it's time to fly southwest and become reacquainted with those fall colors.
They haven't disappeared, you see; they've migrated to Tucson.
The purple shadows of Minnesota's snowbanks reappear in Tucson to delight us as purple banks of flowers anticipating the winter rains.
The mossy greens of Colorado's forest floor paint our agaves and cacti.
As New England's spectacular foliage fades to brown, the flamboyant shades of red, orange and yellow that only recently painted her forests fly off on the wind, and reappear in Tucson's breathtaking sky at daybreak.
In the Arizona-Sonoran desert, green is a fall color. You can't appreciate the number of different shades of green that we have until you've lived here in the desert awhile. As the searing heat of summer fades from memory, the light changes, and what once appeared barren and dull takes on vibrancy and life!
Hey! You're still here! That's good, because there's one more thing I want you to remember about Fall colors in Tucson, Arizona. They last until spring. It's true. They last all winter long.
And that leads me to one last thing you'll want to think about when you're thinking those snowbird thoughts... There's a particular shade of green that stands out above all the other fall colors in Tucson:
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