The Quotation of the Week (October 4 - 10, 2020)

 

A quotation of Dale Carnegie on 'doing little jobs,' compiled by Jerome D'Costa

Photo (Autumn in Toronto, September 26, 2020) by Jerome D'Costa

The Colourful Autumn Is Here In Toronto

The Autumn season is already in Toronto

Photo © Jerome D'Costa (Sept. 26, 2019)

Colourful trees are the signs of the Autumn (also called the Fall) season in Canada. These changing colours from the green to reddish, yellow, and pink are a sight to see and enjoy. 

Please see the following photos in your heart's content to enjoy the colours:

• Photos of the Autumn (Fall) Season in Toronto
• More Colours of the Autumn

The Photo Meditation of the Month (Ocober, 2012): THE AUTUMNAL BEAUTY

Fallen leaves of the Autumn of 2012

Photo (Toronto: October 29, 2012) © Jerome D'Costa

The Autumn season in popularly known as the Fall season. In this season, trees shed their leaves as the winter approaches in cold countries. Before the leaves fall, they turn from green to different other colours. Certain tree leaves take on the yellow colour, some red, some brown and others pink.

It's a thrilling experience to observe these leaves in a varied shapes and colours. The horizon takes on a heavenly look. When the wind blows, leaves fall in great numbers. The ground underneath trees wears a carpet of colourful fallen leaves.

This natural activity is the extension of God's creation on earth. The Fall, like other seasons, sings the praise of God and demonstrates his beauty. Let's appreciate this beauty with our mind, body and spirit. The more we appreciate it, the humbler we become.

The Extravagant Colours of the Canadian Autumn -- 2

The following autumn colours were visible in the Rouge Park, Toronto:

Photos (Toronto: October 11, 2010) © Jerome D'Costa

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The Extravagant Colours of the Canadian Autumn -- 1

Canada, at present, is in the midst of the autumn season. The Nature is in flame here. Gorgeous autumn colours (yellow, orange, brown, bronze, red and purple) in leaves are aspread from the east coast to the west coast, from the north to the south.

With the passing of the summer, the autumn comes with shorter and colder days which make trees know that they have to get ready for the coming winter. Since there wouldn't be enough sunlight and water during the winter, the trees know that they wouldn't be able to use the photosynthesis process (turning water and carbon dioxide into glucose or sugar) for producing food. So, to survive the winter, tree roots, trunks, branches and twigs begin to preserve glucose within themselves and at the same time stop supplying food to their leaves. This gradual stoppage of food makes leaves change colour and fall off to the ground.

Deciduous trees are the ones that shed off their leaves in the autumn. These trees are oaks, hickories, maples, birches, beeches, chestnuts, cottonwoods, dogwoods, cherries, and some others.

Now let's enjoy the autumn colours in and around Toronto.

All photos (Toronto: September-October, 2010) © Jerome D'Costa

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The Poem of the Month (September, 2009): AUTUMN

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The Autumn

By Jerome D'Costa

The Autumn is in,
Summer is out.
Flowers that bedecked
The gardens and lawns,
Are either wilted or about to fall,
Making the plants almost bare or dead.

Fruits, melons, pumpkins and the like
Are in the markets and shelves,
Attracting customers in droves
Who will relish the Nature's bounty?

Frequent blasts of wind,
Beating the leaves -- many of them
Yellow, orange, reddish or brown,
About to drop to the ground en masse,
Giving the appropriate name "the Fall"
To the season of Autumn.