And thereabouts While I was in the Great Lakes area, the leaves were patchy in colour, so I concentrated on other small things, rather than masses of autumn foliage as I had hoped. I was promised that further north, there would be glorious colour, but the night before we went, there was a storm. A lot of the leaves which had been in abundant brilliance the day before, were on the ground. Bah Humbug. Return to Plan B; the small things.