FROM THE SALT LINE TO THE GOLDEN TREES
LINE AND SQUARES AND FALL – Marilyn Armstrong
Tag: trees
THE BLACK AND WHITE OF TREES – Marilyn Armstrong
CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE: UP IN THE TREES! – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trees
We’ve been away for a few days and I’m going to need a bit of time to get up to speed. I’ve got some interesting ideas, but it will take me a bit of time to write and edit them, so be a little patient. Didn’t take any pictures. It rained the entire time we were away, so there was no boating and mostly, Garry was trying to learn how to use a microphone and cut audio tracks — something with which I am NOT familiar, so I couldn’t be of much help.
My primary function seems to have been surrendering my Mac to Garry’s professional ambitions. I didn’t use it much anyway.
Meanwhile, I’ve got some trees!
HOW CAN YOU GET SPRING FEVER IF SPRING HAS NOT SPRUNG? – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Word Prompt: Spring Fever
I don’t have even a hint of spring fever unless you count a deep yearning to see a flower bloom and have the temperature rise regularly about 60 degrees. But spring isn’t much of a season in New England and every year, we hope we’ll get a “real” spring … and we don’t. It’s something about winds and ocean and rivers and rocks.
Living in New York, which is just 240 miles south of here, we got a real spring. By this time of year, we had magnolias and crab apple blossoms and the daffodils were up and the grass was green. You wouldn’t think a mere 4 or 5-hour drive could make such a difference in climate, but it does.
The closest vision to spring I’ve had is watching the birds change from their winter colors to their breeding colors. The dull greenish-yellow Goldfinch are brilliant yellow and even the brightest birds of winter are brighter now. Otherwise, though, we have some green shoots coming up from the ground, but other than a few crocuses, that’s pretty much it. No leaves, no flowers. No green grass.
We do, however, have ticks. And ants. They know it’s spring, even if the rest of New England still thinks it might yet return to winter. I think we are past that, however. It isn’t warm, but the really deep cold is gone. Now, it’s just muddy and chilly. And, I need to remind myself, by a few weeks from now, summer will show up overnight.
Our spring is usually one afternoon in early May. The next day, it’s 85 degrees. Flowers are blooming like mad and all the trees are in full leaf. Sometimes, this rollover into summer happens in a few hours. We go grocery shopping and by the time we are on our way home, everything is blooming.
I’ve lived up this way for more than 30 years and I’ve never gotten used to the suddenness of the seasons. Autumn was like that too, until recently with climate changing. It would be summer and the next day, it looked like every tree had been lit from within.
For the past few years, we’ve barely had any autumn at all. I’m used to missing spring, but fall has always been my favorite season, especially in New England … and having it disappear is very sad.
Maybe it will come back this year.
MORE OF THE LAST AUTUMN TREE – Marilyn Armstrong
The Last Autumn Tree – FOTD – November 9, 2018
We had a second sunny day in a row. Unbelievable! But not to worry. It will rain tomorrow. Probably not until the evening. The rivers are full and they are expecting rivers to flood.
I am trying not to think about it, hoping the sump and the pump are up to the task. And our French drains are not clogged with leaves and the gutters are still viable. And the roof doesn’t leak.
It has been raining … major storms … several times each week and the rivers are cresting. And guess who lives in a river valley?
I went out and took more pictures of The Tree. Because after tomorrow’s storm, it won’t have any leaves left. Count on it.
I have save more pictures because I’m going to need them.
BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE – Garry Armstrong
FOTD – Be It Ever So Humble – October 26, 2018
It was a beautiful day. Actually sunny from earliest rays of the morning until sunset. I went out to clean up our front walk — the dogs, you know — and everything looked bright. We didn’t get much in the way of reds or orange, but the woods are quite yellow and the oaks are beginning to turn to bronze.
I went in to grab my camera and took a few pictures.
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – No Place Like Home – October 23, 2018
It rained in the morning.
These days, it always rains in the morning. Every morning. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow morning, too.
With a little luck, it’ll stop before they start the World Series.
Which starts tomorrow evening. It’s on Fox network so most people with American television will be able to see it. Probably in Mexico and Canada, too.
We had a bit of sunshine right before our doctor appointment, but by the time we got out, the sun was gone.
There wasn’t much to photograph until we got home and I realized that at least our street had some nice color. No sun, but the trees look pretty nice.
