We ran a bunch of errands that took us to Sharon, Pomfret and Woodstock and then to Quechee and Hanover. The fall color should be good in a few days, especially if the sun comes out. Actually the color in our pasture was as good as anything we saw on the drive. The new grass in the pasture is doing well. One spot will need some extra seed that I hope to get tomorrow on our way to an auction preview.
On the drive we saw turkeys, cows, sheep and lots of peepers in Woodstock.
In the gardens things have that end of the season sprawl. Lots of the plants still have a few straggler blooms, but the late flowers are almost all out. I’m still waiting for cimicfuga and witch-hazel.
New blooms: toad lily, chrysanthemum, red aster, bottle gentian, chocolate snakeroot, monkshood.
This Heliopsis, also called 'oxeye', was eaten to the ground by something in mid-summer, but re-grew and re-bloomed. I hope it survives the winter.
the Bushnell game cam caught a flock of turkeys in the woods.
It is fall, and the color is just developing, but the dark sky doesn't help.
This little late bloomer is a toad lily, the plant is covered with dozens of odd flowers like this one.
This would look great in the sun.
And so would this. Maybe tomorrow.
A stag posing for the Moultrie cam early in the AM. When we see deer, the tail is usually held up and they're running away.
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