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By Pam Owen
Special to the Rappahannock News
After the long, hot, dry summer, many of us in Rappahannock County wondered if our normally spectacular fall would have any color at all, or if the leaves would merely turn brown and drop to the ground unceremoniously.
Then, with its usual unpredictability, nature turned around and dumped a load of rain on us, accompanied finally by seasonably cool weather.
Instead of brown, we got to enjoy one of the more spectacular fall leaf-turnings.
In Rappahannock, fall color means more than local folks being able to enjoy aesthetic appeal.
Our economy depends on tourism as well as agriculture, and both would have suffered tremendously if the drought had continued into fall.
Not to say that it’s over, but the recent rains have put a pleasing dent in the water deficit and given us the fall color that we’re famous for.
I’ve been in the middle of moving my house and business, as well as getting my mother ready to move out of the house she’s lived in for 34 years, so I was generally too busy and tired to appreciate the changing of the leaves this year. However, as exhausted as I was, I couldn’t ignore the incredible shifting in light in the last week, as fronts and rain came and went.
One image sticks out in my mind particularly. As I was making yet another run back to the old house to bring stuff to the new house, after a week without much
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