They’re starting to clog up the mountain roads and the city park paths and the river trails, wearing their baseball caps and cowboy hats and of course their sunglasses. They’re toting water bottles and binoculars and sometimes their easels and watercolor kits.

They’re slow-driving and slow-walking, and they keep pointing at trees (how annoying!) and snapping endless pictures on their phones, and they keep saying “ohhhh, look at that!” to their friends and other Leaf-Peepers.

Be kind to the Leaf-Peepers because…….well, because we are all Leaf-Peepers, right?