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Baytoday Photo Gallery Fall colours

According to the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation effective Friday, October 19, 2007 the fall colour season has now come to an end across the Northern Ontario region.
According to the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation effective Friday, October 19, 2007 the fall colour season has now come to an end across the Northern Ontario region.

There is still a full offering of autumn colour looking at the hill leading up to the college, so we captured a few pics before all the colour has disappeared.

Autumn was coined as a reference to the season in the 16th century and comes from the French word "automne", but for North Americans the most colourful of the four seasons is referred to as 'fall' because the leaves fall to the ground only in autumn.

When the days are short and temperatures are cool the production of chlorophyll in trees slows down and the leaves turn from green to the magnificent yellows, oranges and reds.

With the arrival of frost and freezing temperatures the colouration process ends and the leaves left in the trees will turn black.