fall: Leaf Peeping in Western Maryland
- 11/05/07 03:47 AM
Fall has finally arrived. In Maryland that means brisk days, cool nights, and breezy cascades of gold, terracotta, and scarlet as the trees shed their leaves.Except this year. Like too much of the country, we had been unseasonably warm and very dry. Usually we have some nice colors in the trees even here in the Baltimore area, but this year the trees seem just tired of it all and are dropping leaves of pale yellow-ish tan, brown, and only an occasional peachy orange.In need of a long weekend away, and celebrating our anniversary, we headed for the hills a couple of (2 comments)