Canadians revel in fall colors

STORY: The changing fall leaves created dramatic landscapes across parts of Canada. In the Halton Regional Forest Mahon tract, southwest of Toronto, cars drove through a colonnade of luminous yellow foliage. Drone footage captured red, brown and golden treetops on the forest roof.

A professor of forest ecology told Canadian broadcaster CTV that cold weather in September and early October this year, combined with rainfall, had brought out the brighter colors.

With temperatures in Toronto on Sunday up to a crisp 18 Celsius (64 Fahrenheit) after a cold spell, visitors came to the Chester Hill Lookout to take in the autumn trees in the Don Valley.

Artist Victor Fraser said the good weather had given him a chance to make progress on a mural of the zodiac compass he is painting on the Lookout.

“I mean, it’s nice to have this window to come out. I didn’t think I’d get this,” he told Reuters.

Families took advantage of the warm weather to go pumpkin picking on Saturday in the Dixie Orchards in Inglewood, just west of Toronto.

The farm provides family tours of its fruit orchards and pumpkin patch.