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| Moonrise, October 28 |
Late October in Nantucket: Marshes brown, Tupelos leafless, brown scrub oak covering the moors. The Goldenrod is gone, leaving ghostly seed stands. The groundsel/saltbush blossoms are almost gone; there are few hypericum, aster and sweet everlasting . The firey huckleberry, yellow summer sweet and maples light up the landscape. Green cedar, sheep laurel, bayberry, heather, scotch broom provide the green counterpoint. Jays cry, crows call, woodpeckers chip. Have the towhees fled? There is only the sound of 2 airplanes during my 3 mile hike at Norwood Farm. A doe and fawn dart across the path. There is no hunting on Sunday.
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