Today is the first day of fall and this is how it looked in a quiet corner here early this morning:
The lawn grass is still mostly green; the viburnum bushes are not quite all purple-red, the hay-scented fern is mostly golden and brown, and the katsura tree’s leaves are just starting to turn bright yellow.
It’s time to buy some chrysanthemums to ease the annual pain of summer leaving us without a goodbye. While you’re getting the mums, you might as well get a pumpkin and make a Jack-O’-lantern to ward away the witches and scary politicians. Mainescape in Blue Hill has a nice selection of each, mums and pumpkins, that is:
(Images taken in Brooklin and Blue Hill, Maine, on September 21 [pumpkins] and 22 [lawn, etc.], 2024.)