About "Hills Afire"

"Hills Afire" was written during an extended  trip across the mighty United States of America.  We (my husband and I, and our two dogs)  spent some time in western Massachusetts, in the lovely Berkshire Mountains.  One day I took the dogs for a walk along a trail that overlooked a beautiful valley.   It was spring at the time, but having spent a decade in New England, I could so clearly imagine that valley in the fall, achingly ablaze with color.  The song is an attempt to capture the beauty, and the melancholy, of autumn in New England.  I think it would be a good song for a road trip.  Every time I hear it, I picture myself in a car on a highway, with an old friend.