Autumn is like one long fireworks display

Sitting in front of my PC on the second floor at work all day, whenever I look out of the winter for at least half the year, all I see just leaves. Leaves, leaves, leaves of the lime trees that line the street.

It's lovely when you see new buds forming after a long, dark and dismal winter, and the freshness of the new leaves is delightful, but autumn is when the trees really 'shine'.

Every day, the colour of the leaves changes - from dark green, to light green, bright yellow, light yellow, pale orange...and these are just the lime trees. Other trees bring forth more reddish hues. Fantastic. And as German streets nearly all have trees in them and one third of Germany is forested, autumn is a wonderfully colourful time of the year. It's some compensation for what we are about to be subjected to: winter.