Of colors and Colours

To make  up  for the Grey sky, Berlin has maple. The tree turns yellow as it sucessively gets darker, it lights up the landscape.  Other trees prefer to turn red or brown. Today is leaf rain day.

 Every tree I see is shrugging off its leaves and they are falling faster than our groundsmen can clear them with their mechanical mini truck sweepers... I know know what is "fall." Leaves do fall in India but never so dramatically. To make up for the really subdued people and colours, the landscape creates drama.

The passing of time is measured in so may small ways. The leaves turn green to yellow. The carpet of leaves gets thicker and the piles of raked leaves get larger.

Some leaves that are yellow fall down. Branch tips get bare. Flocks of birds fly across the sky in large V's and W's and I's. Sudden sprouts of mushroom appear.( and toad stools..)

And in aldi I found a frost root cover package. The pictures on the packet showed how to dig up your plant, pack its root and move it indoors for the winter. Soft drinks are less and the I found a tin of cocoa or Schoko for the warm night drink. Christmas things are already up for sale, including toys cookies and a zillion things. All colourful but the skies are grey.