Neumans of Nanaimo

Autumn in Nanaimo doesn't happen in gradual stages, at least in my experience.  The oak tree next door is a really good example.  Where the leaves are not glossy emerald, they've gone brilliant orange and carmine. 

All of these will end up just off our front step in the spot where
they eddy lazily and can't achieve escape velocity.

In Alberta, the leaves turn from green to a beautiful yellow outlined in green or gold with green freckles.  Sometimes, you'll find variations on the gold theme, but not color like we find here. On a sunny Autumn morning, you can drive around a corner and smack into color that takes your breath away.

Turner Road & Uplands Drive

Longwood Station Shopping Centre

The lights at Turner Road

Out here, it often seems like horticulturalists plant for Fall color rather than what will happen in the Spring or Summer.  I'm all for that. Fall is my favorite time of year.  :D

The grocery store parking lot

And that reminds me of something kinda funny.

If you're going to be doing jackassery on the road and slide around the corner into the shopping centre, maybe you should make sure that the police aren't behind you.  Maybe you should not pull over into the grocery store parking lot when the police lights start their dance in your rear view mirror.  And maybe you shouldn't park in front of the main doors of the grocery store where the lights and ticketing process get watched by every customer heading in and out of the store, and reported on at length by the cashiers working the tills.

I'm laying odds his mother heard about it before he got home.  *snicker*