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i—FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, l»8S
Autumn leaves
colorful foilage
By Logan D. Mabe
Special to
The Forsyth County News
It starts as a trickle at first with one
leaf giving up its green, wavering in
■the wind and finally lofting its many
colored carcass to earth.
I Not to be outdone, other leaves
quickly follow suit and within weeks
the ground glows with the autumn
hues of fallen foliage.
Leaf watchers revel in this yearly
festival but few know the real reasons
why the leaves turn and migrate
annually from limb to land.
The question seems almost
elementary: Why do leaves change
colors and fall?
Indian legend has it that celestial
hunters slew the Great Bear in the
autumn and its blood dripped on the
forests changing the leaves to red.
; Not fully satisfied with that theory,
researchers and foresters spend
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much of their time studying the
phenomenon and have come up with
some reasonable answers of their
own.
“That question gets asked an awful
Bongarten, a
professor of forest biology at the
University of Georgia. “Nobody
really knows all the answers, but we
know that basically the leaves change
color when the chlorophyll (the stuff
that makes them green) begins to
decay.”
The leaves know when its time to
cut out the chlorophyll production
when the days start getting shorter,
said Dale Higdon, senior forester
with the Georgia Forestry
Commission in Lawrenceville.
Triggered by the shorter days of
fall and the initial change in
temperature, the leaves quit making
the green chlorophyll and other
colors begin to dominate.
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Fiery carpet covers mountains
By Kate Wallace
Special to
The Forsyth County News
Drops of crimson twine through the
ribbings of dogwood leaves. Poplar
and sweetgum burst into fiery blaze.
Tinges of amber creep along the
veins of chestnut, walnut, elm and
hickory foliage. Sugar maples edge
with gold.
And the rosy flat-stemmed aspen
leaves “quake” in the slightest au
tumn breeze, fitting 14th century poet
Geoffrey Chaucer’s description of
their fragile tremblings.
The warm glowing fall colors will
come in full force and crest the trees
on the Appalachian foothills within
the next 10 days. And, until the end of
October, they will sweep silently
like a rainbow across north
Georgia.
NATURE’S SPECTACULAR work
will be accompanied by the wafting
scent of burning wood, the inviting
aroma of boiling peanuts, and the
appetizing fragrance of ripening
apples at the side of the country
highways.
Arts and crafts, flea markets and
musical festivals will also carry the
autumn tune.
“It’s impossible to predict exactly
when the leaves will be at their best,”
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and Trade. “It doesn’t happen over
night. And the fall colors are usually
at their best between the middle and
end of October.”
The wet weather this summer will
intensify the brilliancy of the coming
colors, she said. “Sometimes the rain
also makes the leaves change their
colors faster,” she added.
Nature is free, and many of the best
leaf-watching spots are only a few
gallons of gas away, so whenever the
foliage turns and however vivid its
glory, leaf lovers will flock to the
forests from now until the end of
October.
AND MS. KOSER WARNED:
“Don’t think you will be alone, the
roads, especially on Sundays, will be
full of fellow travelers. Add at least a
half-hour to the regular time of any
journey that’s how many cars
there will be.”
There are so many places to see the
leaves that it is often a good idea to
plan a trip around one of the festivals
being staged in the mountains, she
added.
“The festivals add local flavor and
lots of fun to any trip.”
The bustling Bavarian-style village
of Helen will be the stage for lively,
colorful fall celebrations from now
through Oct. 12. The origin of the
annual Oktoberfest dates back to
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The Helen festival, which attracts
thousands during its six-week run,
features German music, dancing,
beer, wine and food.
But aside from the merrymaking in
Helen, Ms. Koser added, the moun
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