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 ›
#AutumnInNewEngland
WALKING SQUARE 11
FARMS ALONG THE BLACKSTONE My favorite walk is along the big farms by the Blackstone River. We chat with the cows and horses and the chicken are always ready for a chat!
WALKING SQUARE 10
A WALK IN THE WOODS We live in the woods. You might say we are always walking in the woods, though in October, for at least 10 days of it, we were walking through the most outrageous and awesome woods… Read More ›
WALKING SQUARE 3
ALONG OUR OWN DRIVEWAY AS AUTUMN FADES Photos: Owen Kraus and Marilyn Armstrong Our Japanese maple is the first tree to grow leaves in the spring and the last to lose them in the fall. It stays green as all… Read More ›
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.
WALKING SQUARE 2
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN When we moved here and began to explore a bit, I discovered the dam and waterfall in the middle of town and I knew we’d found the right place. Any town with a river… Read More ›
AUTUMN LEAVES
FOTD – November 4 – Autumn Leaves It’s really a pun because the autumn is leaving, but this is about autumn leaves. English is a funny language sometimes.
WALKING SQUARES 1
AUTUMN WALKS IN THE BRIGHT LEAVES Summer was brutal. Too hot to go anywhere or do much of anything, we spent most of it indoors hoping we’d get some rain before we ran out of water (we don’t have “city… 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 ›
LATE GOLDEN OCTOBER DAYS
Festival of Leaves 2022 Week #6: Late October Color in the Blackstone Valley All photographs: Garry Armstrong It may not be the absolutely last day of this beautiful autumn, but it’s getting close. I went to bring down the recycling bin… Read More ›
AS AUTUMN ENDS
FOTD – October 26 – Golden Woods When I look “out back” behind the house, it seems so odd that the ash tree is gone. It has been a big part of our visuals since we moved here. The good news… 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 ›
PEAK AND PAST PEAK
FOTD – October 17 – Leaves: Peak & Past It’s hard to know the exact moment when “peak” leafing passes into “post-peak” leafing. Its especially difficult because it happened differently in different places, even when those areas are very close… Read More ›
AUTUMN COLORS
CMMC: October Autumn Colors I think I may have a couple of extra-point pictures here!
A CHANGE OF SEASONS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Change of Seasons They said it best on the weather this evening: we live for this time of year. Autumn is a short season, but our best. An amazing color display this year.
AUTUMN LEAVES – GARRY ARMSTRONG
FESTIVAL OF LEAVES Somehow, we all knew it was going to be last perfect autumn day. Classes of local kids were out having a run in the woods. Everyone looked happy, including the teachers. Today, as expected, it’s raining, but… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Y IS FOR YELLOW LEAVES ON AUTUMN TREES – By GARRY ARMSTRONG
FOTD – October 8 – YELLOW LEAVES ON THE TREES Yellow with brilliant red patches. The world aglow with color and with the sun out? It’s absolutely blinding!
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 