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| Norwood Farm Kettle Hole Pond |
Josh and I went back to Cambridge on August 14, one day before Charlie and Kelsey's due date. Grandchild #4 arrived nearly 2 weeks late, on August 28. Nathan Keith Posner was born 9 pounds, 7 oz. We returned to Nantucket on September 10. I missed the White Pelican, who visited the sandbar near the Sesachacha Pond cut, but have seen the Marbled Godwit at Folger's Marsh.
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Marbled Godwit ...It has a pink and black beak!
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Norwood Farm rambling in the fall with its goldenrods and asters, its deep red mahogany tupelos and purple grapes, is deeply satisfying. There are still plants blooming that were blooming when we left a month ago: Euthamia caroliniana ( aka slender goldentop) and chrysopsis falcata (sickle leaved aster) in the middle of the sandy moor roads. But the asters, the sweet everlasting (pseudognaphalium obutsifolium), and euthamia caroliniana predominate the landscape. The male and female groundsel are starting to bloom. Some carpets of Hypericum stragulum (St. Andrew's cross) are turning color as well, and the clethra alnifolia (Sweet Pepper) shows only its seeds after its showy and aromatic summer show.
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Sweet Everlasting
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| Goldenrod Solidago Rugosa |
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| Norwood Oak |
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| Groundsel |
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| Groundsel |
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Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve |
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Panicled aster
symphyotrichum lanceolatum
71 degrees, Winds WSW 17, partly cloudy
Ponds extremely low
Almanac Pond from the first tree |
