The colors of the trees are beautiful.
The maples are deep red, and the elm is browning and golden. The gingko trees are a rich gold, and the Main streets are lined with beautiful gingkos, shining gold in the sun and even more golden in the reflected evening light. The Beeches lining the sports fields gleam shining silver trunks, with leaves gently falling to the ground in glorious color.
The leaves are falling and the paths are colorful with different colored leaves blowing in the breeze. The ladies sweep the leaves into bags, and I walked the path before they came and swished through the leaves watching the shadows on the colors as they moved before my feet. The leaves under the trees form colorful groups of blazing color. Beauty is everywhere.
Yesterday it snowed. The snow burnt the leaves even brighter and the reds and the deeper shades made the Maples even brighter. The leaves looked as if they were on fire, when the rising morning sun caught their faces thrusting upwards into the sky. Everywhere the trees are blazing colors. I walked the full path from the top of the hill down past the Sports fields and the wooden steps to the buildings below, and the camera just took photo after photo of the changing beauty in every step.
The morning of the snow, I walked to the window while waiting for the lift, and everything looked sparkling new. I took a photo. I walked out and the air was crisp and cold. I started walking to the bus and a few cars near the road were covered with what I thought was frost...but on closer inspection, it was snow. The students told me it had snowed the night before in Daejeon and the temperature was minus 1. The snow was starting to melt as I made my way to University. The coldness will burn the leaves even deeper.
This is the weather here in Korea...one day warm, then suddenly it is winter and I am wearing boots, stockings, winter coat, warm scarf and gloves and shivering when outdoors, then I walk into my office or a shop, and the stifling heat overwhelms. I have started keeping a T-shirt in my desk drawer for when the heat overpowers, and I have to change to be comfortable. Indoors stifling and almost unbearable, even the classrooms are over heated and too warm, then the outdoors where the crisp cold burns the cheeks and makes the exposed skin glow and tingle. Even the taxis and buses are overheated. Shopping gets to be a burden when you have to keep taking off your coat inside and carrying it, then outside, one has to put coat, gloves and warm scarf on again. 
I was told by a Canadian lady that I need to dress in layers to cope with all this, but the 'layers' then make me look fat which I am not. Taking the layers off to a single layer and carrying all this indoors, is maybe a feature of being in a country where it is cold outdoors and hot indoors. I am amazed at the layers of clothing the students wear indoors, and they sit in overheated classrooms wearing many layers of garments, fanning themselves rather than remove the clothing. I have now learnt to wear lighter sweaters, and layer with a thick coat and fur scarf, which I take off the moment I enter a room. Maybe rooms need coat racks provided. I have burnt my full length camel coat by leaving it near a classroom heater. The next trip may not feature the camel coat that has now travelled the world with me for 4 years.
Sigh!!! Maybe I should eat more and grow some more bodyfat.
All I know is that its cold outdoors, and hot indoors, and the leaves are glorious colors.
Autumn Colors in Daejeon this year are the best ever.
by ladymaggic
Every day the colors are getting deeper and richer, but now the leaves are starting to fall, and soon they will be no more.
I have captured the beauty over 3 weeks now...and they are displayed on my Webshots Albums called 'Autumn'
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