I was outdoors most days in the past two weeks and enjoyed the last bit of autumn leaf colours. Maple, birch, oak, ginkgo, and staghorn sumac trees put on a spectacular show.
Here are a few of my photos from various bike rides and walks in downtown Toronto. They are my entry to Denzil Nature’s Autumn Colours and Terri’s Leaves of Autumn photo challenges.
Autumn Leaves
Public Art
Since Remembrance Day, November 11, is on this weekend, I’m sharing the Toronto sign with a poppy insert in front of Toronto City Hall. The sign looks nicer when it is lit up at night. The pool in front of the sign has been emptied to be turned into an ice skating rink for the winter season.
Weekend Coffee Share
I’d love for you to share your week’s highlights and/ or photos of public art around the world in the Comments or Weekend Coffee Share link-up #140 below. I’m also linking up with Min’s WWWHIMSY.
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It’s hard to beat the art of fall colors. Our colors down south haven’t been as vibrant this year but it’s still been beautiful nonetheless. I love the Toronto art too. I’ve never been there but would like to go one day!
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Lisa, I hope you visit Toronto one day. There’s a ton of public art to see year round and autumn colours are beautiful here 🙂
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Toronto certainly has gorgeous fall colours. Thanks for sharing.
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You’re welcome, Darlene. I saw a lot of golden colours when I was out on a long walk today.
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Wowsa! Those colors are amazeballs. As if Montreal couldn’t get any cooler in my book.
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I’m glad you liked the colours. I saw more ‘wow’ colours today, more golden than red and still beautiful.
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Beautiful photos and fall colors!
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Agreed 🙂
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Autumn is my favourite season🙂
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Autumn is a beautiful season 🙂
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Those trees are spectacular, and it’s like you aren’t even in the city. Fall is so pretty, and it seems to last so long down there. Colours are long gone out west.
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Bernie, Toronto has an amazing ravine system and once you enter one of those ravine trails, it’s like another world, faraway from the city when it’s not far at all. Autumn colours are still beautiful today, more golden than red now.
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Sounds lovely. We drove thru white fields and some brown fields today as we traveled home!
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Beautiful Natalie. I LOVE autumn leaf colors. This fall in the PNW the colors are so much more stunning than I’ve seen them in a long time. No need to take a trip to the NE states…lol.
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Kirstin, Enjoy autumn colours in your backyard. I usually stay home in autumn to see the leaf colours.
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I was back in Ontario for a few days in October, and I’m those beauty leaf colours. It’s such a pretty time of the year.
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Yes, it’s a beautiful time of the year in Ontario. I’m glad you saw some leaf colours when you were here.
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We went to the lookout tower when we were in Ontario. The treetops were a marvellous wall of colours. I plan to do a post with some pictures of it on my new blog—https://aocottagerentals.wordpress.com/—but I haven’t yet. I’ll share the link when I do.
Happy Saturday, Natalie.
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Autumn leaf colours look like a beautiful carpet or landscape painting from lookout towers in Ontario. Have a great weekend, Shari.
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Truly stunning autumn colors you’ve shared, Natalie! You have some spectacular views in your area. The red sumac caught my eye, we have a few trees like that here and I didn’t know their species. The Toronto sign is a beautiful addition. You’re lucky to live in such a beautiful city. Thanks for linking and have a wonderful weekend.
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Thank you for hosting Sunday Stills, Terri. I’m glad you liked the autumn colours I shared. I was out on a long walk today and saw beautiful golden leaf colours in the sunlight. I count my blessings to call Toronto home.
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Brilliant in your neck of the woods, Natalie.
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Thank you Donna for your comment. Autumn colours are usually gorgeous around here 🙂
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Such a stunningly beautiful time of year, Natalie with all of the autumn colours. I love it. x
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I’m glad you love these autumn colours, Sue. I’m fortunate to see them every year.
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Your leaves are so vivid, Natalie. My post is about leaves, too. 🙂
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Vivid is a great description, Marsha. I saw more golden colours when I was out on along walk today. Just beautiful in the sunlight. I’ll be over to your blog shortly 🙂
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This is a gorgeous time of year. See you soon! 🙂
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Gorgeous autumn colours!
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I’m glad you like them, Barbara.
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Love, love, love all these gorgeous leaf photos… sadly most of our trees are completely bare already. But I definitely made sure to get out and see the beautiful colors as much as I could while they lasted.
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I remember seeing photos of your beautiful hikes. I saw a lot of leaves on the ground and still a lot of leaves on trees when I was out on a walk today.
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That’s some fantastic fall foliage!!
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Thank you Susanne for stopping by. I’m fortunate to see these autumn colours every year.
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Beautiful photos of the beautiful colours!
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Thank you Lynette for your visit and comment. Welcome to my blog 🙂
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Ontario leaves definitely do autumn proud — and you have captured this brilliantly.
I absolutely love the poppy on the Toronto sign. Very moving!
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Thank you, Donna. I’m glad you like my photos of autumn colours. Toronto remembers.
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Such vibrant and incredible colors. That national tree of yours sure is putting on a show! 🙂
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Yes, it’s the land of maple leaves. I get to see this stunning show for free every year 🙂
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These autumn colours are beautiful Natalie. Such a contrast in colours. Autum is definitely my favourite time of the year.
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Thank you Jennifer. It’s such a visual treat to see these autumn colours.
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Glorious autumn colours Natalie, you live in such a beautiful part of the world. Thanks for #weekendcoffeeshare
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Thank you Debbie. I count my blessings to call Toronto home.
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Natalie, this is exactly what I picture when I think of Fall. The cityscape will make a beautiful backdrop to the ice rink in winter. I hope you will show us another photo when it is frozen over and the sign is lighted. Norman Rockwell move over…
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Suzanne, The ice skating rink and holiday lighting around and above it are scheduled to start in two weeks. It will look gorgeous. I’ll share some photos in December.
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Beautiful leaf colors. Lovely areas to enjoy the outdoors.
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It’s a beautiful time to be outside and enjoy Fall colours.
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Beautiful! We are way past color in our leaves here. We seem to be moving right into winter already!
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Thank you, Dawn. We still have a lot of yellow and golden leaves on trees at the moment. They’ll be gone soon and holiday lights will be up for the holiday season.
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Love Your pictures. We too have had a good fall! But our yard is full of leaves now. Have to deal with it!
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I hope you have some fun while raking the leaves.
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Such a range of colours! Only in Canada I think
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Autumn leaf colour is a treat from a cold climate.
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What a fun getaway, Ali! Thank you for your weekend coffee share.
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Thanks Natalie 🙂
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Love the autumn colours. I would love to go for a walk in the ravine with the yellow leaves.
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Thank you LiT for your comment. The ravine is stunning in autumn. I love walking there when I’m in the city in autumn season.
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The Scenic photos are magical! Feels like dreamy streets. In India, we don’t have such beautiful colored trees.
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Thank you Prashasti for your visit and comment. Welcome to my blog! Only a cold climate and certain types of trees can give those autumn colours.
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The leaves are truly gorgeous! Your leaves look like ours did a month ago 🙂 All our snow is gone for now, but it is still cold, around 0C, is is going to be colder this coming week (lows of -7C.) Thank you for sharing your beautiful leaves. Have a great new week to come!
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Hi Maria, Winter seems to arrive sooner in your area than mine. I was out on a walk today and still saw a lot of yellow and golden leaves. Sunny forecast for the next four days with daytime high temperatures 10C to 12C. Keep warm and have a great week!
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Yes 🙂 Sounds like you have some great days ahead 🙂 The ground was white when I woke up this early Monday morning. Have a wonderful week!
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Those colors are so very beautiful and I love the poppy. Very cool. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful week.
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Thank you Patrick for your comment. The poppy is for our Remembrance Day Nov. 11th (Veterans Day in the USA). Have a great week!
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Hi Natalie!
You seem to have a later Fall than we do. Our colors are gone and winter is ‘nigh’🫤 Although I’m happy to report that we’re anticipating an unseasonably warm week ahead. Hoping for a couple more bike rides before the bikes get put away for winter.
Have a great week 💜
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Hi Dinah, Over here, we have a sunny forecast for the next four days with daytime high temperatures reaching 50F-53F. Enjoy your bike rides!
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Lovely photos, Natalie! My favorite is the red ones.
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Thank you, Dan. I love red maple leaves. Most of the red leaves are on the ground now but there are still a lot of yellow and golden leaves on the trees.
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Those fall leaves are gorgeous! We don’t really have fall color here in southern Arizona (with a very few exceptions). And there’s something magical about a leaf-strewn path.
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We have a lot of gorgeous, leaf-strewn paths here at this time of the year. I stop taking pictures after a few walks.
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Beautiful. I just love autumn leaves.
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Me too, Kirstin. Have a great week!
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Imagine if we wore those colors and a dress!
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Cecilia, I like your idea 🙂
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Such beautiful leaves, Natalie and great photos. Our son has just returned from LA and I’ll have to ask him about Autumn over there. Enjoying our Spring flowers over here.
Best wishes,
Rowena
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Thank you Rowena. I hope your son enjoyed his time in LA. Have a great week!
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Thanks, he really did, Natalie. Now, just trying to extricate stories.
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A bartering of favourite foods for LA stories may work 🙂
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Thanks for the tip. I’ve been asking him about Disneyland and didn’t get very fan so I’ve been watching a Youtube video tonight. I thought that might give me a few prompts. I’ve never been to America.
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I enjoyed the rides and fireworks at night at Disneyland and movie sets at Universal Studios. Both are fun theme parks.
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Gorgeous autumn leaves!
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Thank you, Lydia, for your comment. I’ve been unable to leave comments on your blog with the Google sign-in requirement. I hope you consider allowing comments by Name/ URL.
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Wow Natalie! In my opinion, autumn is the most beautiful season, and you captured it spectacularly!
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Thank you, Christie. It was wonderful to see autumn colours at their brightest. Most of the red leaves are on the ground now but yellow and golden leaves still hang on.
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wow! nice autumn colors. we only see yellow here. a few reds but far in between.
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Thank you Geo and Del for your visit and comment. Welcome to my blog! I’m fortunate to see beautiful autumn colours here every year.
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You’re welcome. Sometimes, we wish we have more autumn colors like that.
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Or you could plan a trip to Canada in autumn 🙂
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We did. It was beautiful.
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I’m glad to hear that. You made an excellent choice of travel destination 🙂
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how glorious are these autumn leaves! We don’t see a lot of them here in sunny Brisbane so it’s nice to see these photos.
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Thank you Sherry for your comment. These autumn leaves are visual rewards for living in a cold climate 🙂 I’d love to visit Brisbane one day.
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Spectacular series of fall captures, Natalie! It really warms my deprived heart as I missed this sight when we were in Japan a couple of weeks ago – and certainly no chance in Singapore to enjoy the fall colours!
I love your capture in front of City Hall – the sign and its embellishments is functional and rather pretty. It must be a magical skating rink once winter comes around – will you be skating too?
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Ju-Lyn, I’m glad you love these autumn colours. I’m fortunate to see them every year. The skating rink in front of City Hall is very popular in winter. I like watching skaters but don’t skate there as it’s too crowded.
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We tried skating in these picturesque rinks one Christmas when we were in London – very very challenging with the crowds!!!
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Yes, at the popular skating rinks, it’s more fun (and less chance to get injured) to watch skaters than to skate.
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Hi Natalie, what beautiful autumn leaves photos! I absolutely adore that time of year and autumn leaves. Unfortunately, living in tropical Brisbane, Queensland, Australia … we don’t see too many of them! That’s why a lot of my holidays are taken during Autumn and usually south of us so I can get to enjoy the Autumn season to its fullest potential. Thanks so much for linking up with #WWWhimsy xo
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Hi Min, I’m glad you adore autumn leaves. I thought I would share some photos with your link-up to stay in touch. Have a great week!
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Canada my picturesque home. Haven’t been there in a while. Thanks for that nostalgic walk. 🍁 🍂 🍂 🍁
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Thank you Dawn for your visit and comment. I’m pleased to share some of Canada’s autumn colours with my bloggy friends and readers.
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You have absolutely captured the very soul of our autumn!
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Thank you for your visit and compliment. Ontario has amazing autumn colours.
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It does. I am in the Kitchener-Waterloo area
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Nice to meet you online. I know very few bloggers in Ontario.
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The Nature you have photographed is incredibly similar here in Turin (Italy) where I leave. The architectures, of course, not!
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Thank you Bacco Lu for your visit and comment. I’d love to visit Turin one day.
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Love the colors! We have been trying to make our way to Canada, Toronto specifically, for the past year, and keep going elsewhere instead. I think not knowing what to expect weather wise is what is holding us back.
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Thank you MJ & Frank for your comment. I hope you visit Toronto one day. April to June are usually sunny and pleasant, July and August are warm and humid, September and October are usually beautiful with Fall colours. Toronto looks festive and may get some snow in December if you want to experience a winter Christmas.
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Our anniversary is in April so that actually sounds wonderful! Thank you for that info. Maybe 2024 is the year
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You’re welcome. April is usually when cherry blossoms peak in Toronto (the trees were gifts from Japan). If you search cherry blossoms or sakuras on my blog, you’ll see some photos.
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Omg! This just sold me 😂 I didn’t realize you guys had some there. I love Cherry Blossoms!
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Happy travel planning!
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