Pumpkins Float Down Connecticut River

10-16-70 SHORT HILLS: We had another storm here Thursday night which delivered another 0.65 inches of rain. Friday and today have been very windy, shaking all the loose leaves out of all the trees.

A few days ago, before the last rain, I was out in the yard with the dogs, and we were caught in a leaf storm. A wind gust shook ash trees and, for a few minutes, it rained yellow leaves, all back-lit by the sun. Of course, I didn’t have the camera with me, and it was over by the time I got it.

The color here is already pretty good. Here’s an ash from a few days ago.



That storm at the beginning of the month caused a lot of flooding in the Connecticut River Valley in VT and NH. Pumpkin farms on the banks of the river to north of us had hundreds of acres of pumpkins harvested from the vines, but not yet gathered. They estimated a 100,000 pumpkins set sail down river. A disaster for the farm families, but dramatic videos.