Larry: My photo of Mary Todd was taken around 2:15 in the PM. You know how our southern sun can work on colors. However Touchofsky is in Canada, so I would think that no matter what the time of the day the colors would be fairly stable in their cooler climate. But who knows. Maybe in the early AM Mary Todd is more gold/orangey. As for the ruffling, maybe as mine ages it will develop more - maybe. Mine is just too young to say what will happen..............Maryl