November is a halfway month, halfway between fall and winter; halfway between the reds and gold of October and the grays of December … It is the month of browns. ~ Haydn S. Pearson
Yes, November here starts out fairly golden, glowing with the last glance of the sun, sometime blinding us with luminous adornment; and it ends quite grey, the trees stark and bare, the icy ground hard, the air carrying tiny frosted shards.
For now, it’s mostly browns. Beige, buff, camel, taupe, copper, sepia, umber, russet, sienna. They seem to describe well the times.
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Closer views:
cattail, Blue Trail, Middlebury VT – 1 Novlarch needles close, Philbrick Cricenti Bog, NH – 10 Novfungus and oak leaf, Clark Lookout Trail, NH – 9 Novold pitcher plant, Philbrick Cricenti Bog, NH – 10 Novanise hyssop, backyard, NH – 18 Novbee balm seedheads, backyard, NH – 18 Novprickly seed head of wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata), island in Ottauquechee River, Quechee, VT – 2 NovQueen Anne’s Lace, backyard, NH – 18 Novgrasshopper and aspen leaf, Chipman Hill, Middlebury, VT – 2 Novfungi in tree, Chandler Reservation, Warner, NH – 21 Novechinacea seedheads, backyard – 5 Novsphagnum moss, Philbrick Cricenti Bog, NH – 10 Novfungus, Clark Pond Trail, NH – 6 Novmiscanthus grass plumes, backyard, NH -18 Novrusset rock, Murdock Preserve, Middlebury VT – 1 Novbird nest, Murdock Preserve, Middlebury VT – 1 Novfern helix, Philbrick Cricenti Bog, NH – 10 Nov
Farther views:
Jackson Trail, Middlebury VT – 1 Novisland in Ottauquechee River, Quechee, VT – 2 Novboardwalk, marsh, Low Plains, NH – 8 NovMt Kearsarge view from Kezar Lake area, Sutton NH – 23 Novgoldenrod, grasses, Lyon Brook Trail, NH – 7 Novlagoon, Hartford Town Forest, VT – 10 NovClark Pond, NH – 6 Novmarsh, Northern Rail Trail, Andover, NH – 22 Nov 2015tangled vines, Chipman Hill, Middlebury, VT – 2 Novshadows, Kezar Lake, Sutton, NH, – 4 Nov
