Why Leaves Change Color, as Explained by Cornerstoregoddess

by Cornerstoregoddess

Tree leaves are jammed with chlorophyll

Until long nights restore a chill.

Chlorophyll keeps leaves their greenest

But without sun, greening's leanest.

Also inside each green leaf

Are pigments with names less than brief.

Like this one: Anthocyanins ~

(It's leaf color vitamins).

Carotenoids reside inside

But Chlorophyll makes pigments hide.

So when the Chlorophyll stops pumping

These two pigments get to jumping.

Anthocyanins, et al

Bring red colors to the fall

Carotenoids and their fellows

Make the oranges and yellows.

And leaves that once were deepest green

Redress and prep for their next scene.

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Autumn Comes to California

by Cornerstoregoddess

Out here in California

The natives all will warn ya,

Our seasons blend together,

To make our west coast weather.

Though spring still precedes summer,

Our floods could thwart a plumber.

In summer we go drought-y.

Of this there's little doubt-y.

In autumn our brush fires

Thwart firemen with pyres.

To soothe our Santa Anas,

We offer up hosannas.

Our quakes just make us flail

Upon the Richter scale.

But still, with all the shaking,

We're quite light on leaf-raking.

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Leave This Haiku Alone...

Are autumn leaves called



Leaves because that's what they do



When autumn arrives?



Get an eyeful here.