Autumn tree colors are cherished by all of us

We are fortunate in southern Minnesota to be treated to some breathtaking colors of autumn caused by a phenomenon that affects the normal green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs.
Why do the fall colors emerge? They are a wonder of nature.
Rains and wind will chase the colors away but hopefully we will remember the 2020 fall colors and they will make us forget about a haunting pandemic.
Let's take a trip to Wikipedia and learn a little more about how the colors dominate our countrysides.
I bow to an interpretation of science to give us an analysis of why the colors emerge in the fall.
Various shades of yellow, orange, red, purple and brown are vividly displayed in our trees on farms and rural properties. These colors force us to leave (no pun intended) our homes to take a drive and enjoy the scenery of fall.
Wikipedia reads:
"A green leaf is green because of the presence of a pigment known as chlorophyll, which is inside an organelle called a chloroplast.
"When abundant in the leaf's cells, as during the growing season, the chlorophyll's green color dominates and masks out the colors of any other pigments that may be present in the leaf. Thus, the leaves of summer are characteristically green.
"In this leaf, the veins are still green, while the other tissue is turning red. This produces a fractal-like pattern
"Chlorophyll has a vital function: it captures solar rays and uses the resulting energy in the manufacture of the plant's food – simple sugars which are produced from water and carbon dioxide.
"These sugars are the basis of the plant's nourishment – the sole source of the carbohydrates needed for growth and development. In their food-manufacturing process, the chlorophylls break down, thus are being continually 'used up.'
"During the growing season, however, the plant replenishes the chlorophyll so that the supply remains high and the leaves stay green.
"As autumn approaches and daylight hours shortening and temperatures cooling, the veins that carry fluids into and out of the leaf are gradually closed off as a layer of special cork cells forms at the base of each leaf.
"As this cork layer develops, water and mineral intake into the leaf is reduced, slowly at first, and then more rapidly. During this time, the amount of chlorophyll in the leaf begins to decrease. Often, the veins are still green after the tissues between them have almost completely changed color.
"Much chlorophyll is in photosystem II (light-harvesting complex II or LHC II), the most abundant membrane protein on earth. LHC II captures light in photosynthesis. It is located in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast and it is composed of an apoprotein along with several ligands, the most important of which are chlorophylls a and b.
"In the autumn, this complex is broken down. Chlorophyll degradation is thought to occur first.
"Research suggests that the beginning of chlorophyll degradation is catalyzed by chlorophyll b reductase, which reduces chlorophyll b to 7‑hydroxymethyl chlorophyll a, which is then reduced to chlorophyll a.
"This is believed to destabilize the complex, at which point breakdown of the apoprotein occurs. An important enzyme in the breakdown of the apoprotein is FtsH6, which belongs to the FtsH family of proteases.
"Chlorophylls degrade into colorless tetrapyrroles known as nonfluorescent chlorophyll catabolites.
"As the chlorophylls degrade, the hidden pigments of yellow xanthophylls and orange beta-carotene are revealed. These pigments are present throughout the year, but the red pigments, the anthocyanins, are synthesized de novo once roughly half of chlorophyll has been degraded.
"The amino acids released from degradation of light harvesting complexes are stored all winter in the tree's roots, branches, stems, and trunk until the next spring, when they are recycled to releaf the tree."