Woods,trees,leaves and the fruits of autumn

摘要

Exploring autumn's explosively colourful foliage through the works of poets, writers and artists.WHAT is autumn? It is a difficult season to define this year due to a so-called ‘false autumn’, starting not in September or October but in late July and August as deciduous trees went into survival mode due to heat and drought. Leaves browned unnaturally and were shed in large numbers, weeks if not months before the usual time, apparently due to leaf desiccation rather than senescence in the natural order of things.