North American Fall - the leaves they are a changin'

Yes, autumn in Canada is truly a beautiful time. Here in Thunder Bay and the surrounds it is fairly brief though. Trees that are covered in leaves changing in colour one week, are completely bare the next.

Lake Superior shoreline in the Fall

Changing colours of The Fall in North America

Everywhere we travel in the countryside during fall is a panorama of changing colours - red, yellow, orange and combinations of those colours and shades in between. This is the kind of situation where a pictures is worth a thousand words - and so I shall let the pictures speak for themselves. Admittedly these pictures were actually taken in Minnesota just over the Canada/US border and bot technically Canada; but if the yanks hadn't played sneaky buggers when the original borders were being drawn up all those hundred plus years ago - this WOULD be Canada.

Autumn leaves

                                              Here's the story
 (Canadian influenced of course):
Way back when America fought for it's independence from England, Canada was still considered (in part) to be English territory. Naturally borders needed to be established so that territories could be staked. The problem for the English was that they had no surveyors and very little idea of where things lay - especially when it came to Lake Superior. The newly minted Americans were able to convince the English that certain geographical places were closer to the southern (or US side) of the lake than they actually were. For example - Isle Royale. This largish island was shown to be just off the shore of the US side of the lake and therefore rightfully attributable to the USA. Later surveying proved that the island was actually closer to the Canadian side of the lake - but the deed had been done and the yanks grabbed a bigger slice of the lake and nearby land than they could have expected! If you take a look at the border in this area you can see that it looks like the border agreement was drawn by an epileptic drunk and agreed to by a blind man.

Pigeon River - Canada/US border

Regardless of the historical trickery, the whole area is beautiful in the fall. Take a look for yourself.

Riverside colours - Pigeon River

Path to High Falls, Minnesota

Pigeon River

High Falls, Pigeon River US/Canadian border

The colourful backdrops provided good opportunities for photographing the cherubs too.

Megan the wood pixie

Ash and Paige