End of Summer Approaches.

8-29-07 VERMONT: It’s hot and summery again even as we edge toward the autumnal equinox. We took a break from storm clean up to canoe Lake Fairlee this morning. There was a lot of storm damage at the lake. Two houses were hit by falling pine trees, and Camp Billings had a few trees down. Hive looked OK.

In the afternoon Judy helped me work on the pond border where it has eroded. The pond work is done and a new piece of ledge is exposed for a nice effect, but Judy hurt her foot when the wheelbarrow tipped over. I have her on elevation and ice. Tomorrow I go for fence rails with Steve Hoffman and then back to chainsaw work on the dead fall. Yesterday was also a chainsaw day. The apples are ripening, but are still too tart for us, the horses, however, seem quite pleased and pick them off the trees over the fence.

New blooms: turtlehead, more asters, more helenium.


It's a viceroy, not a monarch. Can you see the tongue all black and curled.


Cormorants, three amigos.