Despite High Hopes, Hot Weather Dulls Fall Foliage Season

EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Tour buses continue to pack into a maple sugar farm on the outskirts of Vermont’s capital during the first week of October, the peak of foliage season for travelers looking for the brilliant red and yellow mountainsides that define the season.
While the leaf-peepers are here, mountainside-covering color is not.
Surveying the landscape from behind his business, Morse Farm Sugarworks owner Burr Morse spots pockets of color in the trees. But in other areas, a