incognita The leaves are gone from all the maples around here, and the ferns are all dying to the ground. The forest is taking on its winter appearance, which will not alter much for the next six months. The one exception is the beech trees, which are still going gold and brown. But for vigorous fall […]
Category Archives: Fall
The Face of Winter.
17-Oct-12Hard Frost.
13-Oct-12Lurasidone without prescription I stepped outside at 3 a.m. last night – I stayed up a bit to finish reading a book – and found it was 26 degrees outside. Ice had started forming at 9 p.m. When I got up in the morning, there was a half-inch of ice on water surfaces. First frost of the season, […]
Red Hill Sunset.
12-Oct-12I climbed Red Hill with a friend after he got off work yesterday. We zipped up the mountain in record time – it’s a short hike and it was cold and the sunset was not going to wait for us – and were rewarded with a good, leisurely sunset. He had a backpack full of […]
Crystal Days.
11-Oct-12The weather cleared last night, and the air has turned to crystal. The stars early this morning were astonishing. And I have my stove going now. It amazes me how every new season makes me feel that this is the season – that I wasn’t really at the cabin, that I didn’t really know pleasure, […]