Autumn in the Pacific Northwest is all green trees and gray skies. Coming to the Northwest as an adult after growing up in Minnesota, I dismissed the thought of any fall color. It obviously wouldn’t match the foliar blaze on the ridge along Lake Superior. I had lived in New England one October, a place where leaf tourism is a boon for small towns. Moving to southeast Alaska, I knew it would be green and I was mostly right. When I moved to Washington two years later, I knew it would be green and I was mostly right. While other parts of the country turn red, orange, and yellow, the Pacific Northwest would look just as it always does. But over the past five years I have learned two things and been reminded of one. The first: fall color can occur below eye level. The second: muted colors can look brilliant among evergreens. The third: there are exceptions to every rule. Washington has larches, and larches are trees with amazing fall color.