That is what I would call grey! Right now, outside my window.
When pilleriin wrote about grey Autumn, I was totally confused what the hell she is talking about?! For me last few Autumns have been as colourful as can be. Everything from brown to bright yellow to crimson red. It took me few days to figure it out. It is the city! In Tallinn everything was grey for me too. Tallinn is pretty green city, but it is still a city. Helsinki is different. I wouldn’t call Helsinki even a city most of the time. It is an assembly of villages with fields and forest in-between. That makes the Autumn colourful here. My road to work takes me past fields and forests and water and parks. I look out of my kitchen every morning and I can’t see the grey of the sky because the view is blocked by bright yellow of the birch tree. I go running in a forest with golden leaves underneath my feet and the smell of the Autumn in my nose. That makes the feeling golden. In rain and in sunshine. Nature colours are dominant in the capital of Finland and stony grey has no rule.
But right now there is the sea behind my window. Low clouds, drizzling rain and sea, all of them the same colour - grey. Yes, that is what I would call grey.
UPDATE: Yep! Tallinn is grey, grey, grey. I feel totally depressed already. Sunny Spain! Here I come tomorrow late night. Pls welcome me with sun on wednesday?!