Foliage report – take 1

It’s that time of year again. Friends are emailing from across the country, and a photographer even called from London. “How are the leaves?” they want to know. Well, despite the rosy predictions of the state tourism agencies, New England foliage is getting off to a slow start. We drove five hours up the Maine coast this week, and the most “foliage” we saw consisted of a few salt-stressed Norway maples by the highways and a couple of patches of staghorn sumac that have traded green leaves for orange.

But frost is on the way….