Festival of Leaves 2022: Week #9 – Most of the Leaves Have Fallen Indeed they have fallen and all the trees are completely bare. It happened incredibly fast. Literally, overnight, we went from and incredible fall to naked trees and… Read More ›
Autumn
AUTUMN COMES, AUTUMN GOES, MEMORY LINGERS
Best of the Week: Autumn Green Green mixed with red and gold. Oh may, what an autumn! It wasn’t long, but it was powerful.
WHERE ARE THE PUMPKINS?
I’ve got a few right here — and I’ve got the pumpkin song I learned in elementary school. I thought everyone knew that song. Apparently only kids who went to school in New York during the 1950s knew it, but… Read More ›
GLOWING CLOSEUPS – LATE OCTOBER
Festival of Leaves 2022 Week #6: October Color in the Blackstone Valley I keep thinking that with each long period of rain, the leaves will all drop. They are dropping, but not all of them. Some are actually just at peak… Read More ›
GOLDEN BERRIES OF AUTUMN
FOTD – October 23 – Golden Berries I can’t be sure which leaves are which. Even if I new, I’m not all that great about plants, so while I think the purple ones of choke berries, the yellow ones might… Read More ›
FESTIVAL OF LEAVES – WEEK 5
Festival of Leaves 2022 Week #5: Deeper Reds Watching the maple in front of my window as it changes from green to hits of red and now, a deeper red with orange mixed into it becomes my personal miniature of… Read More ›
THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW…
FOTD – October 19 – Autumn Leaves My mother used to sing nursery rhymes to me and I always remember them as music.
THE PRETTIEST TINY RED SQUIRREL
Today was unique in that there was a big gray squirrel wrapped around one of the feeders. The big gray ones are big enough to do that. In the feeder next to that one was a tiny red squirrel —… Read More ›
FESTIVAL OF LEAVES -4th WEEK
Festival of Leaves 2022 Week #4: Autumn Color on the Blackstone River Even last week, you could see that it was just past peak along the rivers. There were a lot of naked trees, though the rest were in various… Read More ›
GOLDEN LEAVES
We don’t get a lot of color on this property. It’s probably because it’s so dark and the oaks shade everything. Yet there are just a few trees that give us some great color. Most of the places on our… Read More ›
AUTUMN COLORS
CMMC: October Autumn Colors I think I may have a couple of extra-point pictures here!
REVOLUTION AND AUTUMN TREES
Festival of Leaves 2022 Week #3: Framed by the Dogwood FOTD – October 10 – Trees in the Revolutionary War Cemetery The Mumford River dam is conveniently located across the road from the Revolutionary War graveyard where the trees are tall… Read More ›
OLD STONES IN AN OLD CEMETERY – PHOTOS BY GARRY ARMSTRONG
FOTD: Old stones with fall foliage – a Revolutionary War cemetery The cemetery is in the center of the town, across from the dam and just a hundred or so yards from the river itself. It’s up on a hill,… Read More ›
IT WILL BE A COLD NIGHT
The temperature is supposed to drop by at least 40 degrees tonight. I still haven’t turned on my heat. I refuse. I never turn on the heat until mid November. I am not alone. Many people are absolutely phobic about… Read More ›
DOWN BY THE DAM
FOTD – October 9 – Glowing trees by the Mumford dam It didn’t freeze last night, but it got pretty close. In response, every tree lit up as though they are glowing from within. My ability to process photographs is… Read More ›
X IS FOR FALL FOLIAGE?
FOTD – October 7 – X is for Crossing Bridges in Autumn Foliage No Xeranthemums for me. Now when there are autumnal bridges to cross and glorious fall foliage to make you catch your breath! What a difference from last… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 