First Monday in October

What would you rather see posted today?

A photograph of the Supreme Court ready to meet for the new term...

...0r a beautiful Autumn scene from Meredith Harbor, Lake Winnipesauikee, NH?  

Not even a toss up, right?

HAPPY FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER, EVERYONE!

New England Fall Photography

I'm posting photos my husband has taken Falls past.  I'm off to New Orleans tomorrow morning to spend four days with five girlfriends with whom I grew up.  We're celebrating our mutual 60th birthdays in The Big Easy.   

Side Tracked 

Backwater Pond

Bretton Woods

Autumnal Pond

Gourds

Autumnal Equinox or As the World Turns

Ruth of synch-ro-ni-zing inspired me with her nod to Fall today, so here's mine.



Lonely summer chair by the edge of a pond as Fall settles in.

Blue skies dramatize the changing colors of Fall leaves and the bleaching of the barn wood as it decomposes back into the earth.

Bright orange pumpkins, a sure sign Fall is here and Halloween is just around the corner.  After that, pumpkin pies!

Is anything more beautiful than the deepest reds of Autumn?  Those years when red is not plentiful lack the richness I've come to expect of this New England season.



Abandoned cars of an old railway grace the empty tracks bordering a stand of slowly yellowing trees.

Orange, my second favorite Autumn color.  Trees stand out when their colors change.  You can see their magnificent shapes as they reach to the sky.

View of a bridge, the 4th Iron Trestle, spanning the Saco River. 



Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn turns into day
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

               

All photos by Cole Scott Photography. 

 

New England Autumn

Autumn is the "most wonderful time of the year" in New England.  To prove it, here are impressions of our favorite season, taken by my husband, Cole Scott.

Autumn Apples

Sumac Stripes

New England Autumn

Forest Floor

Reflections in New Hampshire Pond

For more of his photography visit Cole Scott Photography.

The Fruit of Fall

Fall approaches.  In the northeast, the leaves are just beginning to turn.  Pears are ripening and ready to eat.  Apples are coming to stores and stands in great bushel baskets.  Pies, tarts, jams, jellies, salsas and relishes are ready for preparation.  

 Yellow Pear by Carson Pritchard

Garden tomatoes will soon be on their way out, no thanks to a short summer with too much rain and too little sun.  We will cherish those we have and think of them each time we eat a store bought or canned tomato this Winter. 

  
Red Tomato by Carson Pritchard