Is Jack Frost Painting the Leaves?

1. Excelsior: Jack Frost is Painting the Leaves: "The first song I remember from my childhood was sung by my mother. I remember, it seemed like some miraculous transformation -- my mother..."

2. FIRST FROST

     First frost often comes in late September. If light, it does no harm to the color of the trees. Hard frost kills the color before it really comes. The old myth of Jack Frost painting the leaves is all wrong, contrary to fact. We have our best color in a mild, dry Autumn.

     HAL BORLAND

     in his "Handbook to the Country" Beyond Your Doorstep (1962)