Fall foliage varies from year to year, for leaf-peepers and trees

Leaves show their fall colors in Jericho in September 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerJosh Halman flew over Vermont’s woods late last summer and saw something that surprised him.Swaths of trees had already gone brown, scorched by an extreme drought that affected more than 64,000 acres. This year, from the same vantage, things are looking up.“We haven’t seen anything even close to the level of damage we were seeing in the foliage last year,” said Halman, wh