Cloudy Skies.

10-4-16 VERMONT: I’ve been here for a couple of days and have yet to see the sun. It has rained a little every day, but the pond is still down five inches. The temps are in the sixties in the afternoon. Foliage color is developing nicely.

I have been working outside. I have pulled most of the flowerbed barriers, done some weed whacking around the roses, shoveled out the culvert. The beds are not ready to clear, most of the perennials are still green. I don’t like to clear the beds until everything is dormant, which will take about another month.

New blooms: boltonia, red aster, witchhazel.


Red aster. This one dries pretty well.

Chrysanthemum. It's hardy for this zone.

Boltonia. Late blooming aster like flower.

Pasture with developing color.

Very red Red Maple.