In case you needed another reason to love the Times: the priceless, ridiculous, daily descriptions of fall foliage in the bottom right-hand corner of the weather page. From today's paper: "The brilliant blazes of vermillion, maize and orange have spread south to the southern New England Coast, upper Ohio Valley and souther Great Lakes. Color is also nearing peak in the southern Appalachians. Leaf loss is high over the interior Northeast, where a myriad of diluted colors carpets the ground."
Could Frost or Thoreau have phrased it any better? Who composes this for the Times? Do they employ someone only for autumn to write it? Or maybe they can still afford to send 20 correspondents driving around the Northeast for six weeks to relay dispatches about leaf loss.
Not looking forward to the required raking of imminent post-peak....
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