The fog is heavy early this Sunday morning, as it has been for most mornings in October so far. I can see only the nearest edge of our sloping North Field, where a crowd of Silver Grass appears to be straining to see Great Cove and its islands below the field.
The woods are darkened by the fog; but, here and there, old maple trees create gold gateways into the dim spruce and balsam fir beyond. It’s an apparent invitation to enter a mysterious adventure, an invitation that I’ll accept soon.
Fog is a common fall phenomenon here on Maine’s Down East Coast. This type of fog apparently often forms when lower temperatures and breezes come ashore to meet air that is moisture-saturated or almost saturated. The process often starts on an Autumn night. If the air’s moisture stays the same and the temperature drops and continues to cool, ultimately that moisture will be released as “radiation fog,” a type of fog caused by the radiated cooling. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on October 15, 2022.)