I stopped at a local post office one morning just after dawn and saw this scene, which I took with my phone. The wind starts to kick up at about mid-morning. This was also taken at Halfmoon Pond, with reflections that are a little fuzzier. October is a windy month but if you get up early enough you can often find water just as smooth as glass. My blogging friend Susan likes reflections and this photo is probably the best one for those. As this shot shows, they are glorious when at their peak of color.Īll of the tree color seen in this view of Halfmoon Pond in Hancock is on maples, and by the time you read this all of those leaves will have fallen. Red maples mostly, because they have the greatest color range. These leaves were totally limp and the way they hung on the branch made me think of laundry drying on the line.īut you’ll find that most of the color in this post comes from maples. Staghorn Sumac leaves give us bright reds, purples and oranges and they will often hang onto their color even into death. Going off to second grade is the strongest memory that comes to mind for some reason, and it is all held there in that wonderful smell. That scent immediately takes me back to boyhood, when I scuffed my way through the fallen leaves on my way to school each day. Kind of like apple pie, molasses, compost and woodsmoke all rolled into one scent. The fragrance of all those leaves drying in the sun is sugary sweet and earthy at the same time. Though these are full size trees they look like toys.Īnd the big difference is, these views are much more beautiful than any you’ll ever find in a model train layout.Īlso in Surry is this scene, which always makes me wish I could somehow transport all of you here so you could smell as well as see autumn in New England. They had small lichen “trees” growing on them and that’s what this scene always reminds me of. train layout when I was a boy with tunneled mountains I crafted out of plaster. But sunshine or clouds these colors are always beautiful, as one of my favorite scenes shows in this photo of birches and maples growing on ledges up in Surry. The past three weekends I think, have been cloudy, and since the only real large blocks of time I have fall on weekends you’ll see what our fall colors look like when it’s sunny and cloudy. Since the last fall foliage post I did I’ve been chasing color, and that isn’t always easy for a colorblind person.
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