Tonight is the Harvest Moon. After a brief return to Cambridge for doctor's, dentist and hair appointments, we are back in Nantucket. The rich reddish mahogany of the tupelos is turning brown and they are losing their leaves. The beloved sweet pepper (clethra alnifolia) has yellow leaves, while the fox grapes are dappled with yellow, green and brown. The huckleberry and the virginia creeper are bolts of bright red. Ferns are curling brown. How easily the life crumbles.
The early goldenrod (Euthamia tenuifolia) is mostly gone at Norwood Farm, where I hiked today; with groundsel Stiff-leaved and bushy asters and pearly everlasting (Gnaphalium obtuisfolium) the predominant flowers. A New England Silver Aster was a good find. The scrub oak is standing strong with its greenery intact and the jays are as loud as ever.
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Norwood Farm
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Lily Pond at Norwwod Farm
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Kettle Pond from the heights
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Stiff-leaved Aster, Aster linariifolius
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Bushy Aster, Aster Dumosus
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Grey Goldenrod, Solidago Nemoralis
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Oh, the Tupelos!
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My favorite Oak
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Groundsel, Baccharis Halimifolia
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