Everyday Canvas

The Color of Fire

Prompt: "Aflame in color, poets have written, borrowing the language of fire to describe trees in their full glory-fiery-red sweetgums, sugar maples igniting, birches alight in yellow flames. Okay, writers what are your views on this?

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If this were a movie, it would be called a wide shot, with a poet sitting in the foreground and fiery words flying overhead clapping their red wings.

Of all the colors of fall, --gold, bronze, yellow, saffron, and orange--, red seems to stand out in representing fire, but fire has many different colors in it. Just light a match and watch. I always notice more bright yellows and oranges in a flame; then sometimes, even a bright blue color edges it.

Depending on the region, autumn can be fiery, icy, cold, warm or hot. We don’t have autumn leaves where I live now, but we did, many years ago, and those leaves and trees were stunning, but truthfully speaking, it was a backbreaking job to rake and bag all those leaves from a two-acre yard with about 200 tall deciduous trees of every kind. Still, I loved that house in the middle of the woods. It was like a bird’s nest. Of every house I ever lived in, that one still stands as my favorite.