SEPTEMBER 2021 IN PICTURES

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Only a month ago. If September memories were beets or pumpkins, they’d still be totally fresh and ready to use, tasty and fortifying, maybe even sweet if the pumpkins were pie; if these memories were green beans or berries, on the other hand, they’d have long ago become mushy compost. Either way, it’s a win, nourishment from every corner of our lives. Here’s looking back at you, September.

Walks & Sights … in New Hampshire

I walked seven different trail systems in NH in Sept., plus around town. All the rain this summer made for lots of fungi.

  • muddy trail
  • new bridge and boardwalk
  • mourning cloak butterfly on goldenrod
  • hobblebush
  • ferns
  • narrow path
  • great blue heron
  • frog
  • asters and monkshood
  • green heron
  • Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe)
  • Retiboletus ornatipes (ornate stemmed bolete) mushroom
  • Harrya chromapes (chrome-footed bolete) mushroom
  • Cortinarius sp. mushroom
  • coral fungi
  • Medeola virginiana (Indian cucumber root)
  • Epifagus virginiana (beech drops)
  • monarch caterpillar on milkweed
  • Actaea pachypoda (doll’s-eyes, white baneberry
  • black-eyed Susan
  • cosmos and zinnias
  • Cortinarius (probably C. azureus) mushroom
  • Strobilomyces floccopus (old man of the woods) mushroom
  • Actaea racemosa (black cohosh, bugbane)
  • dogwood fruit
  • asters and Virginia creeper
  • juvenile common yellow-throat warbler
  • hickory tussock moth caterpillar
  • stinkhorn mushroom
  • junco
  • female black-throated blue warbler

Walks & Sights … in Maine

We spent 4-1/2 days in southern Maine in September, in Kennebunk/Kennebunkport, Ogunquit, Wells, and York. Most of each day was spent walking and exploring in woods or on the seashore.

YORK – MT. AGAMENTICUS

  • Erechtites hieraciifolius (American burnweed)
  • porcupine!
  • sumac
  • Vanessa virginiensis (American lady) butterfly in aster
  • goldenrod
  • wintergreen in moss
  • sunlight on rocks
  • long view

OGUNQUIT

  • kites
  • Footbridge Beach
  • Norseman beach
  • knotweed hedge, Marginal Way
  • monarch butterfly in knotweed
  • Perkins Cove harbor
  • Buddha statue
  • restored pollinator garden
  • asters

KENNEBUNK/’PORT

  • snail on the move
  • dog-walking on Gooch’s Beach
  • gull
  • dog-walking on Gooch’s Beach
  • greater yellow-legs
  • stained glass – St. Anthony’s Franciscan Monastery
  • unicorn in Adirondack chair – St. Anthony’s Franciscan Monastery
  • garden – St. Anthony’s Franciscan Monastery
  • St. Anthony’s Franciscan Monastery
  • stepping stumps – St. Anthony’s Franciscan Monastery
  • great blue heron
  • running deer
  • Canada geese
  • monarch butterfly on buddleia
  • harbor
  • sanderling
  • bumblebee in rosa rugosa
  • jetty
  • cormorant
  • Gooch’s Beach

WELLS RESERVE / LAUDHOLM FARM / RACHEL CARSON NWR

  • eastern comma butterfly
  • sanderlings
  • false Solomon’s seal
  • Indian cucumber root
  • persicaria
  • American copper butterfly on aster
  • great blue heron
  • herring gull
  • plover
  • sanderling in clam shell
  • sand dollar and dark rock
  • noontime

Food

So many food photos, and photos of food places, this month. Many meals eaten outside at restaurants on our trip to Maine, as well as near home in New Hampshire.

  • champagne at friends’ for dinner
  • shrimp tacos, Brix, Ogunquit
  • Bog 2.0 orchid orb, Brix, Ogunquit
  • Polyculture Brewing beer garden
  • apple pie made by spouse with neighbour’s apples
  • Chef Jacques crepes, Wells ME
  • Mornings in Paris, Kennebunk
  • Mornings in Paris, Kennebunk
  • Bitter End, Wells, ME
  • sauteed hake fish, Five O Shore Road, Ogunquit
  • grilled swordfish, Five O Shore Road, Ogunquit
  • sea scallops, papperdelle, saffron broth, local restaurant
  • crusted Iceland cod, local restaurant
  • Old Vines Wine Bar, Kennebunk
  • pan-seared halibut with almond brown butter crust
  • olives, Old Vines Wine Bar, Kennebunk
  • view, Boathouse Restaurant, Kennebunkport

Socialising/Zoom

  • Salon on a friend’s porch
  • poetry group on deck overlooking lake

House & Garden

CAT

GARDEN

  • basil harvest (made into pesto)
  • cosmos
  • Acronicta insita (large gray dagger moth) caterpillar
  • Chelone lyonii ‘Hot Lips (turtlehead)
  • crab spider in cosmos
  • 10 monarchs in Joe Pye weed
  • bumblebee in ‘Rozanne’ geranium
  • monarch on ‘Bluebird’ asters
  • hover fly on ‘Bluebird’ aster
  • pink perennial mum
  • feverfew
  • pink asters
  • Helianthus divaricatus (woodland sunflower)
  • calendula
  • Helenium autumnale (sneezeweed)
  • last hummingbird seen this year, in comfrey
  • Kirengeshoma palmata (yellow waxbells)
  • prairie warbler in goldenrod
  • puffy catbird in crabapple
  • monarch on buddleai
  • jagged assassin bug on echinacea
  • shade garden
  • gazania (annual)
  • anise hyssop
  • Heuchera ‘Orange Marmalade’
  • milkweed tussock moth caterpillar