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Sep122011

Autumn leaves...

DateMonday, September 12, 2011 at 3:56PM

Did you know...

...the reason leaves turn colour in the autumn is that shorter fall days mean trees stop producing chlorophyll allowing their true colours to show?  The Weather Network 

So....the "true" colour of leaves is NOT green.  Who'da thought?

 

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