To me, the best thing about leaves in the fall is their color. (But I also love the crunchy sound they make when you kick your legs through them.)
Red, yellow, orange, brown. Yawn.
How about a more exciting way to describe autumn leaves? When we add specific colors to our writing, our descriptions become more concrete and vivid.
A yellow leaf? Try ocher, mustard-yellow, saffron, flaxen.
Red? Wine, scarlet, crimson, blood-colored.
Orange? Tangerine, coral, salmon, reddish-yellow.
For those of you with fall leaves outside your door, check out the incredible range of colors. Try describing a leaf in a poem:
Falling
The crimson maple leaf
twirls toward the ground
like a glass of wine
spilling ruby drops.
