Walks & Sights … in New Hampshire
Thirteen walks this month on trails, plus more in town, imprinting the scents, sights, sounds, and sensibility of each place before snow cover, leaflessness, torpor, and dormancy set in.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park (Cornish NH)
KEZAR LAKE (SUTTON NH) – on the 11th and 23rd
PHILBRICK-CRICENTI BOG (NEW LONDON NH) – on the 8th and 13th
Other nh trails
turkey tail fungus coral fungi destroying angel mushrooms leaves in brook sulphur tuft fungus (Hypholoma fasciculare) leopard slug (Limax maximus) hobblebush foliage, berries Russula mushroom cinquefoil (Potentilla recta) stinkhorn fungus toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) pine-tree spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus punctulatus) Indian cucumber root (Medeola virginiana) Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora) Lake Sunapee bumblebee on aster red clover Eastern / Red-spotted Newt
(Notophthalmus viridescens)some kind of weasel – mink? leaves of red oak hermit thrush hydrangea and beech tree chipmunk garter snake (7 Oct)
OTHER TOWN WALKS
Walks & Sights … in Vermont
We walked the Path of Life in Windsor, Vermont, on 14 October.
Food
shepherd’s pie and Fiddlehead IPA on patio of local restaurant buttermilk Southern fried chicken sandwich, Harpoon Brewery patio crusted Iceland cod with anchovy tapenade and fregola sarda (on patio of local restaurant) weekly order from BrookFord Farm fish & chips, Harpoon Brewery patio beer flight, Harpoon Brewery patio veggies at Spring Ledge Farm reuben on patio of local restaurant beers and pizza, Polyculture Brewing eating outside as long as possible! at Blue Loon Bakery on 28 October crowd at Polyculture Brewing
Socialising/Zoom
House & Garden
CAT
HOUSE
GARDEN
‘Hot Lips’ Chelone (turtlehead) cosmos bees on ‘Bluebird’ asters peegee hydrangea asters Autographa californica (looper moth) on buddleia zinnia front yard northern red-backed salamander perennial mums sneezeweed cardinal in crabapple backyard ‘Rozanne’ geranium Cuphea ‘Vermillionaire’ (large firecracker plant) lavender dwarf ‘River King’ birch maybe coyote mossy backyard bear cub borage yellow foliage seasonal decor
