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By EUGENE McCARTHY
This is the main season for looking at Rappahannock County.
People from the urban areas of Virginia and Maryland, a few other nearby states and from the District of Columbia are driven or drawn west toward the mountains to look at the change in the color of the leaves of trees and vines as the fall season comes on. There is some serious looking at Rappahannock County in the spring when the blossoms of wild cherry, red-bud and wild plum, followed by erabapple and the glory of the dogwood, give first color to that season and some casual watching or looking at the county in the summer and in the winter, especially after snowfall or after sleet storms when all the winter wonder of New Hampshire and of Vermont is transferred to Rappahannock County. But the truly purposeful looking is that of the autumn.
Most of those who come to look quite probably do not know that it is Rappahannock County they are looking at. They may well miss the road sign of 211 just east of Amissville, but a few miles beyond that town they must, if at all sensitive, note the subtle changes in landscape and in terrain. The land is rougher. There are outcroppings of flint and of granite. The hills are sharper. The road takes on a different character. There are no more of the easy sweeps that mark it on either side of Warrentnn. The Blue Ridge mountains become more blue and Old Rag begins to stand out.
The havfields are clear, with the rolled bales fenced in hay lots, and the cows and spring calves graze in pastures and meadows with a quiet intensity, as though they knew they must be ready for winter. The apple trees still carry green leaves. Most have been relieved of their summer's burden but a few still show the red and green of late ripeners.
At roadside and in the hedges a few flowers sur
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