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High Country Autumn Rolled Canvas Prints
High Country Autumn Rolled Canvas Prints
Three factors influence autumn leaf color-leaf pigments, length of night, and weather, but not quite in the way we think. The timing of color change and leaf fall is primarily regulated by the calendar, that is, the increasing length of night. None of the other environmental influences-temperature, rainfall, food supply, and so on-are as unvarying as the steadily increasing length of night during autumn. As days grow shorter, and nights grow longer and cooler, biochemical processes in the leaf begin to paint the landscape with Nature autumn palette. Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The average peak for changing leaves in some of the country best fall foliage viewing locales is the third week of September and into October. But in many regions this year, there were early signs of autumn. After the third hottest summer on record and below average rainfall for many states, some have wondered about the effects of summer dryness on fall colors. No matter how the weather affects trees in the upcoming weeks, millions will be seeking stunning foliage across the country. Leaf peeping strategies, such as driving in order to take in the most scenery, are varied, but there is a unique way to experience fall colors in every region. Deciduous plants were traditionally believed to shed their leaves in autumn primarily because the high costs involved in their maintenance would outweigh the benefits from photosynthesis during the winter period of low light availability and cold temperatures.
