Fall has always been my favorite time of the year -- and it has less to do with it being football season as it does with it just being autumn. The crispness in the air ... the smell of smoke coming out of chimneys ... the knowledge that Thanksgiving (and then Christmas) is right around the corner ...
... And, of course, the colors.
North Carolina is normally blessed with a beautiful and radiant fall. The western part of the state, in particular, is famous for its fall vistas.
And this year could be particularly beautiful -- which could be a boon for tourism.
“We should expect brighter color than last year,” Kathy Mathews, assistant professor of biology at Western Carolina University, told the Asheville Citizen-Times. “Overall, it should be a colorful fall.”
In 2005, a warm fall led to late and muted color, with many leaves turning brown in lieu of their normally vibrant palette.
“This fall, it seems more on track to have typical colors start at the beginning of October and peak in the middle of the month,” she said.
With the varied elevations, temperatures and rainfall in the mountains, color arrives at different times and with varying brilliance.
Sounds -- or rather, "looks" -- good to me.
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