The true beauty of autumn

Sugar maples are flashy, with bright reds and yellows and tourists.  It is once they have all gone that the true, somber beauty of autumn shows up.

Green pines and spruces and hemlocks give a backdrop to the rusts and golds of the oaks, while the birches are yellow punctuation marks and the beeches (it seems like most of the roadside trees in Wilmot, NH are beeches) are yellow and gold and green all in one.