Last season (the foliage)was spectacular here…a few years before that it was gorgeous too. Some years it isn’t as vivid, some it is. Lots of factors play in to that equation each year.
I remember a few years back…it was so dry, it was predicted to be a horrible foliage year. But then in September we got some soaking rains, and that’s all it took for the trees to respond, and it ended up being a spectacular fall foliage year, despite the dire predictions due to the very dry summer.