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Looking out my kitchen window, my eyes seem to travel to plants and blooms in the tones of orange, rust and burgundy. It's October and I just can't get enough of the warm colors of fall.

Even the kitten that plays in the flower garden has orange in its calico-colored fur.

We know the weather is going to get cooler, but somehow we are never ready for the chill and then the freeze that ends our growing season.

I'm not sure just why the flower colors are so much brighter preceding a frost, but they are. Perhaps it's because the green-colored items in the landscape are changing also. The first...