fall foliage

Fall foliage has arrived in the High Country. The autumnal change arrived on time and the colors are popping with golds and reds, says Howard Neufeld, a biologist at Appalachian State University, who is also known as the "Fall Color Guy."

Mid-October usually means the peak fall color season in the North Carolina mountains. But so far, the trees along the Blue Ridge Parkway are still mostly green.

Together, aesthetic awareness and scientific analysis puts us in direct, sensory relationship with the forest and gives us the ability to understand what we see, says author David George Haskell.