10-7-20 VERMONT: We are getting a bit of rain today, just showers, but it all helps. I have been outside doing chores every day, some work in the barn and other winterizing jobs, pulling out more bed borders and plant supports, storm doors. The outdoor benches are all cozy in the basement. The tomatoes are history until next spring.
Foliage season is progressing, but we still have green trees mingled among the bare ones. Yesterday we drove to Woodstock on the back roads and found some nice color on Galaxy Hill Road and Cloudland Road in Pomfret and Woodstock. It’s a favorite trip for us in the fall, especially, and since we have a restaurant there we like, at other seasons as well, but, of course, no restaurants now.
There is a gorgeous horse farm on the road closer to the Woodstock end called Sleepy Hollow Farm. When we went by it there were more than a dozen cars and vans parked on the road and 20 or 30 people taking pictures. Here’s a link. <https://newengland.com/today/travel/vermont/the-history-of-sleepy-hollow-farm/>
Woodstock was busy with out-of-state cars and photogs everywhere. It was good to see all the visitors here spending time and money.
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Red asters, reliable and hardy.
Wild asters grow everywhere and bloom earlier than the cultivated.   Toad lily, a weird looking flower and late bloomer. 
Bottle gentian. Pollinators actually push into the closed top of the flower. 
Evening primrose is a biennial and looks nothing like the other primroses. |
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