Here is another flora-meets-fashion observation inspired by my weekend photo safari. This time, autumn foliage made me think of spring. (Hmm, I wish we could just leapfrog over the imminent winter cold.)

These orange, green and dark pink leaves…

…reminded me of this bold outfit from Blumarine’s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear Collection:

I know, this look is definitely a bit garish, but it screams “tropical” which happily takes me back to Turks and Caicos.

Runway photo from style.com