Falling into Fall

Fallen maple leaves are wet from a day-long rainstorm in Moreland Hills, Ohio, on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

Amid a wash of Fall color from the surrounding trees, an Amish farmer and his team spray a field in Middlefield, Ohio on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.

A couple walks under a canopy of colorful leaves at the Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River Reservation in North Olmsted, Ohio Monday, Oct. 26, 2009.

Vermont

A farmer drives a tractor through a field in front of the backdrop of fall's colors in Waitsfield, Vt., Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

A horse grazes in a pasture in front of the backdrop of fall's colors in Waitsfield, Vt., Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

People walk their dogs along a road under the blanket of fall's colors in Waitsfield, Vt., Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

New Hampshire

Lyn Walters, 71, fly fishes in the Merrymeeting River in Alton, N.H., as fall leaves begin to change Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.

New England's fall foliage meets with an early snow in Franconia, N.H., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

New England's fall foliage meets with an early snow in Franconia, N.H., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

New York

Fog rises off a lake in Highlands, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009.

Colorado

In this Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, photo, colorful aspen trees stand straight into the blue sky during the autumn season change near Buena Vista, Colo.

In this Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, photo, with the autumn foliage in the background, a group paddle their sinking fishing boat to shore at Cottonwood Lake, near Buena Vista, Colo.

Maine

Various trees appear to be near their peak color, with a stand of evergreens in the background and a corn field in the foreground in North Portland, Maine, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009.

Indiana

The reflection of changing fall foliage is reflected in Ogle Lake at Brown County State Park in Nashville, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.

New Mexico

Raindrops land in a puddle where cottonwood leaves collected after a storm hit Albuquerque, N.M., on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.

Oregon

Fall leaves form a colorful canopy above an umbrella-clad pedestrian in Portland, Ore., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009.

North Carolina

A man does some early-morning fall fishing among a stand of old tree stumps as the fog lifts from Falls Lake in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.