Expert Optimistic for Color Autumn in Region — The Anderson Observer

Expert Optimistic for Color Autumn in Region — The Anderson Observer

Observer ReportsEvery year, as September tips toward October, the people of the Southern Appalachians and South Carolina’s Upstate wait for a kind of small miracle: the slow ignition of the forests into flame. It is never the same twice. Some years are muted—bronzes and browns washed flat by too much rain. Other years seem sharper, more alive: maple crowns burning with the unlikely clarity of a painter’s palette, sourwoods drenched in wine-color…