Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Defiance before the fade

One last wisp of colour
London, ON
October 2025
This photo originally shared on Instagram

A month ago, fire glowed in the tones at our feet, in the remaining leaves that still held onto their last wisps of colour despite the inevitability of all that surrounded them.

If we return to that quiet spot in the woods today, the colours will have shifted to browns and greys, mere shadows of what once was. It’s easy to assume it’s all over, that nature has hit pause, that nothing happens between now and spring, when life will return with a flourish.

This simple assumption, that everything stops as winter approaches, then magically restarts in a few months, ignores all that now happens out of our sight. The life we believe is reflected exclusively in bright colours can often be even more vibrant in their absence.

I wonder if there’s a broader message in these leaves. Maybe we’ve been looking at this autumn colour thing all wrong.

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