<p>Now...you can't hold me to this. I'm not the weatherperson. But I just got back from Williamstown about three hours ago, and my best guess is that the weekend of 10/28-10/30 should be peak fall foliage or just past it. I was very surprised how much green there still was...it was just starting to get pretty, but I don't think it's far enough along to make next weekend the peak. So get psyched. Hope you have better weather than we did--windy, cold, and rainy, but still fun. Very nice Winslow Homer special exhibit at the Clark if the weather doesn't cooperate, but I can't imagine they'll have three lousy weekends in a row (next weekend doesn't look too promising, either.) Bring warm clothes.</p>
<p>Foliage never peaked this year...we have yet to have a frost which yields those beautiful colors...so sorry! What you saw last weekend was IT!</p>
<p>Oh, don't be such a pessimist, radannie! Our own freshman family weekend in 03 followed a very dry summer, and a fall windstorm that blew all the brown leaves off early. And the morning of class visits it was snowing (pre-Halloween--no kidding). It was still pretty up there. :)
I saw a lot of green this weekend, and some reds and yellows beginning to appear. I think it's going to be a good (or at least decent) frosh family weekend. If not, as I said, despite cold, gray, blustery, rainy weather--Williamstown and environs were still beautiful! Gotta love those mountains.</p>
<p>and just think, you will probably get all those leaf peepers along Rte. 2, even if you don't have the peak foliage for them to peep at!</p>
<p>go purple valley!</p>
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I saw several charter-busloads of peepers staying in town. I felt bad for them, the weather was so lousy. But they seemed to be having fun anyway.</p>
<p>How was it?</p>
<p>The weekend was wonderful. Weather much better than forecasted. The sun appeared at the start of the exciting Williams-Amherst soccer game on Saturday, and warmed the area to a balmy 60-something by Sunday. </p>
<p>After all the fun activities, including an informative talk with Marty in Chapin, really entertaining and funny Frosh revue in the new theater, and fantastic a capella performances around campus, it was hard to leave the purple bubble, not to mention DS who seems so at home up there. </p>
<p>He says he's 'working his butt off' with reading and math sets, etc., but seems to have a good social life, and is working hard at his sport. He's so impressed with his friends there who are all smart, but also have something outstanding about them - one sings opera, one is an award-winning baritone, his roommate's a math genius, etc.</p>
<p>It was great to see him so happy, and in such a wonderful place...</p>
<p>The weather was beautiful starting mid day on Saturday and the trees were full of color - mostly yellows with some reds. The drive between Albany & Williamstown was fantastic in the sunshine, at least to my novice eyes.</p>
<p>We had a great time seeing DD again after a couple of months separation. We attended a couple of her classes on Friday, one a large lecture and the other a much smaller outdoor field study class. Both were interesting, but the class in the field was very special. Took a walk up the hills in back of the Clark Museum to study the geology there - 10 students, the prof, his dog and a few of us parents tagging along. I'm not sure this would have been so pleasant the last few weeks with all the rain, but Friday was great and the view from the meadow in back of the Clark was picture post card perfect. I'd recommend it to all.</p>
<p>We didn't get to do much on campus on Saturday because DD had an off campus activity all day. Only regret, though, was that we missed Morty's talk. All of the students we met were very friendly and interesting, and we had fun chatting and comparing experiences with other parents. All in all, it was a great weekend.</p>