Well as the weather changes, the days get shorter and the nights become longer, this is the time when trees starts putting on their fall dress: Yellow, orange, red etc.

This tells you that the winter is around the corner. The leaves changes in to beautiful colors and your eyes and heart enjoys the unknown delight during nature walks.

Thanks to seasonal precipitation and temperature which influence the timing and intensity of fall colors.

It is said that clear, bright days; cold but above freezing temperatures; and dry conditions brings the best fall colors.

We all enjoy the colors of autumn leaves wondering how and why a leaf changes its color in fall. And thinking about these beautiful bright autumn colors that where they were hiding all through summer?

Well to our own surprise all these colors are obtained from chlorophyll and among all these color the green color is so strong that it hides all other colors.

It’s a whole long process that plants take water from the ground through their roots, and take carbon dioxide, a gas from the air.

Than sunlight comes in through leaves. Leaves are nature’s food factories and use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into glucose.

Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for their energy and growth.

The way plants turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar is called photosynthesis. This means “putting together with light.” Chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen, and this is what gives plants their green color.

The sugar moves in to all parts of the Tree through the leaves.

In fall leaves get less light each day. This is the time when the trees stop making food and the leaves begin to die.

The hidden color comes out to show the world that they have been their all the time under the green cover.

Now there are ever green trees which do not change their color. It is because they have tough narrow leaves called needles, which fall very slowly and do not change the color like the other.

During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer the autumn wind blew and carry the leaves here and there. Heavy rains make them fall. The branches become dark and bare. And the tree holds its buds to be green again in summer.