Autumn Leaves in Full Color

Maple, oak, birch, and ginkgo leaves overlap edge to edge, each one traced in a fine dark outline that separates it from its neighbors. Colors run from deep burgundy and rust through pumpkin orange to butter yellow, with a few olive green leaves still holding their summer tone. Pale cream oak leaves stand out against the warmer background, scattered like small flags among the reds and golds. Every leaf shows its own vein pattern, some straight and feathered, some branching like a river system, and the jagged or rounded edges make each species easy to pick out even where they overlap in threes and fours. No stem, branch, or patch of ground shows through; the whole surface is leaf. The layered shapes and sharp outlines give the eye countless small edges to latch onto, the kind that reward a slow, patient search.