More Chores, More Color.

10-11-20 VERMONT: New color is developing as the first trees go bare. It’s hard to get work done outside as I’m always looking at the trees and not at what I’m trying to do. We had a drop of rain last night after a beautiful day in the seventies. There won’t be many more of those this year. 

Today was sunny, but colder. I moved a stack of firewood drying outside behind the garage into the wood shed. Yesterday I pruned and did some work on the lower end of the brook. All the hoses are put away. The plant bed borders are put away. The plant supports are put away. Almost everything is done except the garden bed cleaning and that has to wait until all the plants are dormant in November. 

Brady the horse has a thick winter coat. Frogs and the turtles are still active in the pond. I saw a pair of garter snakes sun bathing today. Robins are eating the crab apples, flycatchers are still darting in and out of the trees. Chickadees are hanging around the empty feeders, but I can’t fill them until the bears are in bed in December. 

 New blooms: witch-hazel.

The cupola, newly repaired, on our barn silhouetted by a maple tree.

A pair of young maples admiring their reflections in the pond.

More color in the pasture.

The color appears in waves as new trees change and then go bare.

Nice color on Galaxy Hill Rd.

Witch-hazel flowers just opened.