browns

28 degrees and sunny. The Green Mountains have turned into something else. The brown hues are becoming more prominant. There are many of them, yellow, orange, and red; very pale browns and beige colors like you see in the corn stalks drying in the fields. There are more conventional shades of brown like one finds in some of the oak leaves, and the barks of trees; now revealed as the leaves have fallen away. There are the cooler colors like the greys. They can be observed in some of the dessicated remains of the goldenrod along the roads. The deer seem to mimic many of these muted colors as their coats thicken up for winter.