Fall draft

At the end of every summer, we are get to witness the beauty of fall. The gradual process of changing is seasons is hard not to notice. Every fall, the changes in the length of daylight and the drop in temperature causes the chrolophyll in the leaves to break down. As a result, the leaves start to lose their green colors and start falling off because they cannot make food through photosynthesis. The sight that is even more captivating is the variations of red and orange that we see in leaves. Light, temperature and the amount of water available affect this gradient. During low temperatures (above freezing), leaves in maple trees tend to produce anthocyanin which causes a bright red color. The intenstiy of this color increases with rainy days and decreasing with freezing temperature.