Most of our trees have not started changing into their fall attire or are only in the process of doing so. A very few, like precocious children, cannot help showing off their obvious promise. Here you see one: the locally-admired “Baptist Church Maple yesterday:
Otherwise, there are mostly scattered, warm-colored accents among the greens of the local trees. For example, a few of these colorful sprinkles competed for attention with rock-bound sunburst lichens (Xanthora lichens) at the mouth of Patten Stream yesterday:
(Images taken in N. Sedgwick and Surry, Maine, on October 8, 2024.)